Category: North American Authors
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Kenoyer, Natlee
About the author When Natlee Kenoyer was born in 1907 in Modesto, San Francisco was still recovering from the after effects of the earthquake of 1906. She loved horses, and first rode on a burro in Golden Gate Park at the age of seven. She had her own pony at the age of eight, but…
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Ketchen, Susan
About the author Susan Ketchen was born and raised on Vancouver Island, Canada. She has pursued an alarming number of educational paths and professional careers, including over a decade as a marriage and family therapist. She can sometimes be found “out standing in her field, and always on the web at www.susanketchen.ca”. She lives on…
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Peterson, Shelley
About the author Shelley Peterson (b.1952) was trained as an actress. She has over 100 acting credits, and starred in Canadian sitcom Not My Department. She began writing for her daughter, who had gone in one year from being one of the popular crowd to being anything but. Her daughter encouraged her to finish the…
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Robertson, Frank C
About the author Frank C Robertson Won the Silver Spur award of the Western Writers of America for the best juvenile Western of the year for The Sagebrush Sorrel. Finding the bookReasonably easy to find. The book had two publications in the UK; the Collins Seagull edition is easy to find. Links and sourcesNational Library…
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Dawson, Joann S
About the author Joann S Dawson is an American author. She’s also worked as an actress, and it’s perhaps not a coincidence that the world of film has found its way into her Lucky Foot Stables series. As well as being a horse wrangler on Oprah, Dawson has also appeared in The Sixth Sense and…
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Edmonds, Lin
About the author Lin Edmonds is the pseudonym used by Lin Harbertson. She wrote the Patric the Pony series for her grandson, and it’s now up to its sixth volume. The series celebrates loyalty and friendship. Finding the booksAppear to be in print. Links and sourcesLin Edmonds on Authorhouse (no longer extant) Series Patric the…
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Farmer, Gayle
About the author Gayle Farmer is a retired horse trainer, who decided, after selling her horse farm and retiring, to write about the horse world she’d known. She’s written eight horse books, all based at the Double Tree Stables. The series divides into two sections: the Showtime books are about Blair; the others centre around…
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Ghent, Natale
About the author Natale Ghent (b.1962) was born in Brookfield, Illinois. Her aunt encouraged her to write her stories down by buying her spiral-bound notebooks and telling her to fill them. When Natale was seven, the family moved to Ontario; away from her close family, but to a rural environment where they had animals, and…
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Hesse, Laura
About the author Laura Hesse is a Canadian author, scriptwriter and publicist. She has her own publishing company, Running L Productions, which produces her own books, and is starting to publish other authors. Laura’s first book was One Frosty Christmas, written while she was recovering from an operation. When it sold its first print run…