![]() ![]() 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, andįinished 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. ![]()
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