At twenty-six, author Walter Farley hit on a winning formula for juvenile fiction. "Farley's novels," wrote A. B. Emrys in the Journal of Popular Culture, "make the best of both romantic escapes and e...
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Walter Lorimer Farley created the Black Stallion, one of the most famous real or fictional horses of all time, over forty years ago, and that horse is still running at the head of the race. The origin...
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Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
Shipwreck off the Spanish coast: a boy and an untamed Arab stallion the sole survivors. This promising situation, led up to by a logical sequence of events, is used i...
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Critical Essay by Dorotha Dowson
This sequel to the very popular book The Black Stallion is not remarkable in style, plot or characterization, yet [The Black Stallion Returns] has pace and verve and ...
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Critical Essay by Marjorie Burger
Since the appearance in 1941 of Walter Farley's first book, "The Black Stallion," readers have been clamoring for more and more of his thrilling...
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Walter Farley
Walter (Lorimer) Farley
Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
