Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

"She muses to deep and lyrical effect in Dark Horses and Black Beauties…Pierson's writing is austere—a formal restraint that, given the subject, makes one think of dressage, of riding crops, leather boots, of subtle motions in the saddle."

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

"She muses to deep and lyrical effect in Dark Horses and Black Beauties…Pierson's writing is austere—a formal restraint that, given the subject, makes one think of dressage, of riding crops, leather boots, of subtle motions in the saddle."

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

"She muses to deep and lyrical effect in Dark Horses and Black Beauties…Pierson's writing is austere—a formal restraint that, given the subject, makes one think of dressage, of riding crops, leather boots, of subtle motions in the saddle."