About the author
Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) was a “legendary classroom presence”; a poet, teacher and Pulitzer Prize Winner for his Collected Poems. Columbia College today honours great teachers with the Mark Van Doren Award.
Dick and Tom, Tales of Two Ponies was written early in his career, and on publication was inscribed by him “To Mother and Dad, who will know how untrue these stories are.”
Finding the book
Scarce and expensive; it was not published in the UK.
Links and sources
Mark Van Doren, Wikipedia
Mark Van Doren at Columbia
Some of Mark Van Doren’s sonnets
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
Bibliography (horse books only)
Dick and Tom, Tales of Two Ponies
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1931, 68 pp, illus George M Richards
Pictorial endpapers, Margaret Van Doren
Charlie’s father had ponies when he was little: red Dick and black Tom, and he tells his son stories about what he and his brother got up to.
