Glen Rounds (1906-2002) was born in a sod house in South Dakota and travelled by covered wagon to the Montana badlands, where he lived on the kind of ranch depicted in The Blind Colt. As a young man, Rounds studied at the Art Students League in New York City, becoming friends with Jackson Pollock, with whom he spent a summer travelling the countryside. Later, with his gift for storytelling, Rounds published his first book, Ol' Paul, a collection of tall tales influenced by the stories of Paul Bunyan. Rounds continued to write and draw for 60 years, even learning to draw left handed when arthritis crippled his right arm. Some of his best known books are Cowboys, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Sod Houses on the Great Plains.
