He used his first advance to go traveling and after that hardly stopped longer than it took him to write another book.

It was published by Random House when he was 26. Walter Farley began to write his first book, THE BLACK STALLION ®, while he was a student at Brooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, and finished it while he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. Consequently, I received a good background in different kinds of horse training and the people associated with each.” He switched from runners to jumpers to show horses to trotters and pacers, then back to runners again. Farley recalled, “and in a way I profited by it. “He wasn’t the most successful trainer of race horses,” Mr. But unlike most city children, he had little trouble gaining firsthand experience with horses-his uncle was a professional horseman, and Walter spent much of his time at the stables with him.

Walter Farley’s love for horses began when he was a small boy living in Syracuse, New York, and continued as he grew up in New York City, where his family moved. He died in 1989, shortly before the publication of his last novel, The Young Black Stallion, written with his son Steven.The Author Walter Farley and Almarah Athena Farley went on to write thirty-three other enormously popular books about the Black Stallion and other horses which were published in more than twenty countries. But soon he realizes that a professional racetrack is no place for an unbroken stallion.'Ībout the Author Walter Farley's first book, The Black Stallion, was an instant hit when it appeared in 1941. When two strangers show up and offer to make Steve s dream a reality, Steve cannot believe his luck. The horse is untrained, but incredibly fast and Steve just wants to show him off. But when two strangers show up and offer to make Steve's dream a reality, Steve quickly learns that a racetrack is no place for an unbroken horse.īook Synopsis More than anything, Steve Duncan dreams of racing his huge, wild stallion, Flame. Although untrained, Flame is incredibly fast and Steve wants to show him off. About the Book Steve Duncan dreams of racing Flame.

The Island Stallion by Walter Farley