About K. M. Peyton
Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who wrote primarily as K. M. Peyton, was a British author of fiction for children and young adults in the 1960s and 1970s. Peyton began writing when she was nine-years-old and was first published when she was fifteen. In 1950, Peyton published her first novel Sabre, the Horse from the Sea, illustrated by British artist Lionel Edwards. After the birth of her two daughters, Peyton started writing fiction novels and returned to the topic of her "first love"—ponies, horses and equestrianism. Peyton wrote more than fifty novels in the including the Ruth Hollis series, the Pennington series, and the Flambards series, the latter about the Russell family which spanned the period before and after the First World War.
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