Sarah maslin nir bio
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Sarah Nir: Writer and Rider
That Sarah Maslin Nir loves horses is not new news; it says so all the way at the bottom of her New York Times reporter's biography, but the way things are going for her lately, perhaps that line should be a little higher up.
Her first book, "Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal," published in August 2020, was such a success that it has spawned a series of middle-grade children's books, called "Once Upon a Horse." The first in this series, "The Flying Horse," was released in March. A fall release is planned for the second, "The Jockey and Her Horse," telling the story of Cheryl White, the first Black female jockey, co-written with Ms. White's brother, Raymond White Jr. A third book is in the works.
But mentioning her love of horses at the bottom of her Times bio was an intentional choice. "I cover really, really tough stuff: the worst moments in life," Ms. Nir said in an interview. "I was worried that if I revealed t
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The Jockey & Her Horse: Inspired by the True Story of the First Black Female Jockey, Cheryl White
- Once upon a Horse, Book 2
- By: Sarah Maslin Nir, Raymond White Jr.
- Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Jockey & Her Horse is inspired by the true story of the first Black female jockey, Cheryl White, and her horse, Jetolara, by New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir and Cheryl White’s brother, Raymond White Jr.
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Riding High
As well as providing what her psychiatrist father might have approvingly called a sense of mastery, riding also gave Nir the emotional sustenance she needed as a child. In the moving chapter “Benediction,” she admits that she became closer to horses because she couldn’t be close to her three much-older brothers. “In the ungar, I was grateful to be in the company of creatures who, unlike my family, had nowhere else to be but by my side,” she writes.
Nir understands that many riders feel as deeply about horses as she does, and part of her book revolves around her fellow fans and the horses that have captivated them. She visits a crowded competition in Leesport, Pa.; details the wild-pony colony on Assateague Island, Md.; and, most movingly, sidetracks into a little-known part of American history, via the Museum of the Black Cowboy. Nir makes the point that horses are a key part of our country’s ongoing story — “furls of an American flag in equid form eller gestalt, imbued with our narr