The book was released when the author was 26 years old, published by the well known Random House. He would finally be able to complete it while attending Columbia University as an undergraduate. This was because he would switch over from all types of horses from trotters to runners and jumpers, and so he was able to learn about a lot of different horses and what they do along the way and how different types of training were done.įarley first started writing what would be his initial novel when he was in high school in Brooklyn and then academy in the state of Pennsylvania. He recalls that while his uncle was not the most successful race horse trainer, he felt that he himself profited from this. He was able to spend quite a bit of time with his uncle and the horses at the stables. While he never had the chance to own a horse, he was able to be around them frequently due to his uncle’s profession as a horseman.

It started when he was living in Syracuse and continued as his family moved to NYC. His works have been adapted into three movies and a television series that ran from 1990 to 1993.īorn June 26, 1915, he always had a passion for horses. He died in 1989, shortly before the publication of his last novel, The Young Black Stallion, written with his son Steven.Walter Farley was an American published author. 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