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Walter Farley is an American author best known for writing horse stories, specifically The Black Stallion series of books.

Walter’s uncle was a professional horseman and taught him horse training, including the advantages and disadvantages to the multiple methods of training. He began writing The Black Stallion while he was still a high school student and published it while an undergraduate at Columbia College of Columbia University. He would graduate from there with his B.A. Farley would go on to write many more sequels before he died in October of 1989, shortly before the publication of his twenty-first book in the series, The Young Black Stallion.

Publication Order of The Black Stallion Books