Category: North American Authors
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McDaniel, Lurlene
About the author Lurlene McDaniel was born in 1944 in Philadelphia, and was educated at the University of South Florida. She started writing when her son was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of three. The experience changed the family forever. Random House write about their author “Everyone loves a good cry, and no one…
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Martin, Bill and Bernard Martin
About the author Bill Martin (1916–2004) collaborated with his brother Bernard (dates unknown) on ten books. Five of them were about horses, with three forming a series for the younger reader. Bill had difficulty learning to read, and this difficulty informed much of his later career. He taught, obtained a doctorate in early education, and…
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Pascal, Francine
About the author Francine Pascal (b.1938) is an astoundingly prolific author. How many titles are written by her exclusively is debatable (the giveaway word here is that she “created” some of her series). For the Sweet Valley High series, which sees twins Elizabeth and Jessica through High School, a team of six or seven writers…
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Peck, Robert Newton
About the author Robert Newton Peck (1928–2020) was something of a man of mystery – reliable information about him is thin on the ground. There’s plenty of it, but much of it is conflicting. However, that’s not stopped him writing. He’s written over 50 books, most of them children’s stories. Many of his stories are…
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Siamon, Sharon
About the author Canadian author Sharon Siamon grew up in rural Southern Ontario. She was educated at the Universities of Toronto, Nipissing and York. As a child, her family were too busy to have horses, but she was horse mad, and would ride the work horses (being scraped off their backs regularly) and her friends’…
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Snelling, Lauraine
About the author According to her mother, author Lauraine Snelling’s first words were “Read to me.” Whether she did or not isn’t recorded, but whatever she did, Lauraine has had a lifelong love of books. She first began writing as the mother of three teenagers; she wanted to write “horse books for kids”. Her first…
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Stevens, Mallory
About the author Mallory Stevens is an American author who’s written at least one horse book. Though better known under the title My Favourite Colt, under which it appeared in the Rosettes series, it was originally published by Stabenfeldt as My Favourite Colt. She’s also written Can’t Buy Me Love, a teenage romance. Finding the…
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Tousey, Thomas Sanford
About the author Thomas Sanford Tousey, author and illustrator (1883–1961) was born in east Kansas to a father who owned several Thoroughbreds. When Tousey was eight, the family moved to Indiana. Tousey’s talent at illustration was obvious from an early age; he won a drawing competition in 1902. When noted illustrator Howard Pyle saw his…