Don Walters

Don Walters took his M.A. in theatre at Northwestern University, and after working in the field of book publishing, he treaded the boards as an actor and conspired with actors as an artistic director before going on his own as a writer.

His first major success, the historical novel 'The Woman Who Loved Horses,' features a young woman determined to win her place in the male-dominated sport of Thoroughbred racing in 1930s and 1940s America. The sequel, 'Tangerine Horse of the London Olympics,' depicts the efforts of the young woman's most accomplished Thoroughbred in the grueling three-day event of the 1948 London Olympics.

Walters's award-winning children's play 'Chanticleer' has been widely produced. His 'Shakespeare Tonight!' is a comedy of the disasters confronting a troupe of actors on their 1852 tour of mining camps in California's Gold Rush country. An adaptation of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' is one of his most recent works for the stage.

Among Walters's other books are the mystery-romance 'Remembering Zoe,' set in Southern California during the 1970s, and the soft science fiction 'Second Intelligence,' a portrait of the UFO craze and national security activities in 1960s America.

He is also the author of the Thoroughbred racing novella 'The Handicap of El Dorado,' 'The Book Of Original Sayings,' which is a collection of thirty-nine sayings for a quote-worthy modern society, and the nonfiction narrative 'The Splendiferous and Most Noteworthy Sierra Backpacking Expedition.'

Walters lives in Kentucky, USA, where he was born.