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 books
The American printing of Flying Ebony is reasonably easy to find, though the UK printing can be tricky.
Links and sources
Iris Vinton – obituary, New York Times, February 9, 1988
Terri Wear: Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography
Series
Jonathan
Flying Ebony
The Black Horse Company
Bibliography (horse books only)
Flying Ebony
Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1947, 289 pp, illus Marc Simont
Macdonald, London, 1950, 224 pp, illus Arnold Taylor
Jonathan is too young to go to sea, but when Captain Dan leaves his horse Black Ebony for
Jonathan to look after while the Captain’s at sea, Jonathan makes himself useful by riding up and down the coastline during storms, looking for ships in distress.
The Black Horse Company
Dodd Mead, New York, 1950, 273 pp.
Jonathan loses his job as messenger for the coast guard, but gets a far better one as look out for a salvage company. He still has his horse, Ebony, but there’s now added action with the abandoned schooner, Zanadu.
