{"id":1668,"date":"2014-10-25T06:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2014-10-25T06:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T11:49:12","slug":"farley-walter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/farley-walter\/","title":{"rendered":"Farley, Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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In 1940, an editor told him, “Don’t figure on making any money writing children’s books.” Walter Farley disagreed. He wrote The Black Stallion<\/i> (Random House) as a high school student in Brooklyn, New York. The book was published when he was 26, while he attended Columbia University.<\/p>\n

Born on June 26th in Syracuse, New York, Walter Farley loved horses and hung around the race track. He wrote that first book out of a longing to own a horse, a tough dream to realize for a boy in New York City. Farley wrote and published more than 30 books about horses, many of which are still in print.<\/p>\n

Francis Ford Coppola made two movies out of the books, The Black Stallion<\/i> and The Black Stallion Returns<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Farley\u00a0was very active in children’s reading programs, making frequent appearances at schools, libraries, and book fairs. A Literary Landmark in his honor can be visited in Venice, Florida, where his family spent their winters. Walter and Rosemary Farley had four children; today, son Steven’s series of Young Stallion books is published by Random House.<\/p>\n

Mr. Farley died in 1989.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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