Klose, Norma Cline

About the author

Norma Cline Klose is an American author, brought up on a farm near Grand Blanc, Michigan, and now living in Florida. Her only book, Benny (1965), was written in memory of her horse, a cow pony.  

Finding the book
Easy to find.

Links and sources
Thank you to Dan Harrett, Director, Grand Blanc Heritage Association, for biographical information
Terri Wear: Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography
Thank you to Lisa Catz for the photograph


Bibliography (horse books only)


Benny, the Biography of a Horse

Lothrop, Lee, Shepherd, New York, 1965, 191 pp, illus Gloria Gaulke

I have a feeling this might be non fiction: it’s the story of Benny, the author’s 17-year-old retired cow pony. Benny knew many tricks, and managed to win ribbons at Western showing just before he died, aged 33.