Word: flicka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse named Toyota, has no plans to write adult fiction. Says she: "I'd rather claim authorship of My Friend Flicka than Princess Daisy...
DIED. Mary O'Hara Alsop, 95, author of the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka, a poignant tale of a friendship between a boy and his horse that became a movie and a television series; of arteriosclerosis; in Chevy Chase, Md. A descendant of William Penn, Alsop published books under the pen name Mary O'Hara, including several that evoked the sweep and grandeur of America's Rocky Mountain states (Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming), a region she came to love while living on a Wyoming ranch with her second husband, Helge Sture-Vasa...