Category: North American Authors
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Weir, Joan Sherman
About the author Joan Sherman Weir (1928–2019) was a Canadian author. She was born in Calgary, and educated at the University of Manitoba. After graduating, she worked in advertising, and wrote for radio. She wrote several novels for adults, all of which were rejected. She realised her heart lay in writing for a younger age…
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Weyn, Suzanne
About the author Suzanne Weyn was born in New York, educated at Pace University and has taught at New York University and City College. She has worked on many series books for children: Barbie, and Scooby Doo; she’s written on ballet and of course horses. She’s contributed to a series: Breyer Stablemates (which I think…
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Tate, Nikki
About the author Nikki Tate is a pseudonym used by author Nicole Tate-Stratton for her children’s books. Nikki was born in Birmingham, but after travelling the world, has settled in Canada. Her favourite book when she was a child was Black Beauty. She’s gone on from reading that to rescue a whole host of animals,…
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Robertson, Keith
About the author Keith Robertson (1914–77) wrote widely for children, and under the pseudonym Carlton Keith, wrote murder mysteries. He is best known for his Henry Reed series, about a small boy and his entrepreneurial activities, but he also wrote five horse books, including his first published novel, Ticktock and Jim. This is set in…
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Miller, Basil
About the author Basil Miller (1897–1978) was a Christian author who wrote around 90 books. He wrote several devotional books and many autobiographies of missionaries and other Christian figures. He also wrote several series for children, all of which I think had a Christian slant. I have only mentioned the stories with some horse content…
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Patchin, Frank Gee
About the author Frank Gee Patchin (Frank Guild Patchin, 1861–1925) was a writer of boys’ adventure stories, producing series like Ted Turner, and The Battleship Boys. He also produced an early horse series: The Pony Rider Boys, which included 12 titles. Altemus, the series’ first printer, describe it thus: These tales may be aptly described…
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High, Linda Oatman
About the author Linda Oatman High is an American writer of children’s books, who started writing after working as a waitress, a lifeguard, and a secretary. Whilst not writing, she’s in a basement band. Oatman High’s books are generally aimed at the younger reader, and are mostly historical. The Girl on the High-Diving Horse follows…
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Lindsay, Maud McKnight
About the author Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941) was born in Tuscumbia, the daughter of the only foreign-born governor of Alabama (her father was born in Scotland.) She was a friend of Helen Keller. She founded Alabama’s first free kindergarten in 1898: it still survives, and is known as the Maud Lindsay Free Kindergarten. She taught…
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Galeano, Ralph
About the author Ralph Galeano writes the equestrian column Picket Line, which is also available on the Horseman’s Press website. He is a member of Western Writers of America, and has ridden all his life. A collection of his columns, Saddle Sore, is also available. Finding the bookStill in print, and easy to find secondhand.…
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Townsend, Doris
About the author Doris McFerran Townsend has written many books. As well as fiction, she has also written several cookery books. She was one of the founders of the magazine Teens Today, and worked as an editor in a New York publishing house. Although she had been a rider since early childhood, only one of…