Walter Farley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Farley

American writer

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1915

Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, United States

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1989

Profession: screenwriter, writer, children's writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Walter Farley

  • Walter Farley (born Walter Lorimer Farley, 26 June 1915 – 16 October 1989) was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children.
  • His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941).
  • He wrote many sequels, and the series has been continued since his death by his son Steven. Farley was the son of Walter Patrick Farley and Isabelle "Belle" L.
  • (Vermilyea) Farley.
  • His uncle was a professional horseman and taught him various methods of horse training and about the advantages or disadvantages of each method.
  • Farley began to write The Black Stallion while he was a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania.
  • He finished it and had it published in 1941 while still an undergraduate at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he received a B.A.
  • the same year.
  • The USA part of the book was located in Flushing, Long Island, NY in a part of Queens that was near the World's Fair site in 1939.
  • Part of the action took place on Colden Street, just a block or two from Main Street and only several blocks from the terminus of the Flushing subway line.
  • This area up to the end of the 2nd World War had a number of actively working farms.
  • There were cows, horses and truck farming.
  • After the War, the land was sold and eventually high rise 20 story apartments were built.
  • The area was not very far from Belmont race track. Farley and his wife, Rosemary, had four children—Pam, Alice, Steven and Tim—whom they raised on a farm in Pennsylvania and in a beach house in Florida.
  • In 1989 Farley was honored by his hometown library in Venice, Florida, which established the Walter Farley Literary Landmark in its children's wing.
  • Farley died of cancer in October 1989, shortly before the publication of The Young Black Stallion, the twenty-first book in the Black Stallion series and after the start of production on the television series The Adventures of the Black Stallion.

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