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Barbara Holland (1933-2010)
American author. She wrote poetry, adult non-fiction and a handful of children's novels. Probably best known for her humourous advocacy of such vices as smoking, drinking, swearing and eating unhealthy food. She wrote a book tellingly titled Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences - and listed her two favourite hobbies as drinking and smoking.
One of her children's novels is a pony story and contains an equine character based on her daughter's own cantankerous pony.
Barbara's mother Marion Holland was also an author of pony novels.
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