Category: North American Authors
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Vail, Virginia
About the author Virginia Vail is a prolific author. Most prolific authors have some biographical information lurking, somewhere, about them. I’ve not been able to track any down yet about her. Perhaps Virginia Vail is a pseudonym. She’s contributed several titles to the Animal Inn series, and has written a horsey series, Horse Crazy, all…
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Viereck, Phillip
About the author Phillip Viereck is an American author, who’s written at least one horse book, Sue’s Secondhand Horse (1973). Finding the bookEasy to find. Links and sourcesTerri Wear: Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography Bibliography (horse books only) Sue’s Secondhand Horse John Day Co, New York, 1973, 149 pp. Sue dreams of getting a horse,…
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Vinton, Iris
About the author Iris Vinton (1906–88) was born in West Point. She wrote several children’s historical stories, mostly based on fact. Flying Ebony (1947) was made into a film called The Mooncussers. Iris Vinton was also one of the cohort of authors who contributed to the immensely long Nancy Drew series. Finding the booksThe American…
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von Tempski, Armine
About the author Armine von Tempski (1892–1943) was born in Hawaii, which proved a lifelong inspiration. She spent her early life on the Haleakala Cattle Ranch, which she and her sister turned into a dude ranch to keep it going after her father’s death in 1921. She wanted to make others see her beloved Hawaii…
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Ward, Lynd
About the author Lynd Ward (1905–1985) was an American illustrator and storyteller. He was born in Chicago, and studied fine arts at Columbia Teachers’ College. He was inspired to create wordless novels after he read Otto Nückel’s Destiny, and in 1929, he published Gods’ Man. The first American wordless novel, it sold more than 20,000…
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Warren, Billy (William Warren)
About the author William (Billy) Warren (b.1882) was an American author of ranch stories. Kirkus certainly didn’t like his work – the reviews I’ve found call his illustration as mediocre as his writing, and find his stories lacking both depth and characterisation. I’ve not been able to find out anything else about the author, as…
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Weber, Leonora Mattingley
About the author Lenora Mattingly Weber (1895–1971) wrote the immensely popular Malones series, still in print today. Born in Missouri, her family homesteaded in Colorado, where Lenora had what could be described as a healthy, outdoor life. When she was 16, she rode in rodeos and Wild West shows, experiences she re-used in a few…
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Wedekind, Annie
About the author Annie Wedekind grew up in Louisville Kentucky, where she rode. She’s ridden in every place she’s lived since, and carried on with her love of horses by writing about them. She’s contributed several titles to the Breyer Horse Collection series. Finding the booksReasonably easy to find. Links and sourcesAnnie Wedekind at MacmillanAnnie…