Founder of England’s Kennel Club (1873) and breeder of collie forerunners Trefoil, Tartan and Tricolour.

Seasoned child actor who won the role of Timmy on the acclaimed 1950’s/60’s television series “Lassie”.

In 1991, he also made a return to television in “The New Lassie”. His autobiography “Timmy’s in the Well” is due out in September, 2007.

December 21, 1872 to February 18, 1942

He was an american author, journalist, and dog breeder. He is perhaps best known for his beloved novels featuring collies. His kennel, Sunnybank (named after his family’s summer home), is well known in the collie world and his dog’s lines still exist in many pedigrees today.

“Lad: A Dog” featuring the most famous Sunnybank dog Lad, was his first book about dogs and was published in 1919.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Syria From the Saddle (1896)
Columbia Stories (1897)
How to Box to Win (1900) (written as “Terry McGovern”)
Dr. Dale: A Story Without A Moral (1900) (with Marion Harland)
The New Mayor (1907)
Caleb Conover, Railroader (1907)
The World’s Great Events (1908)
The Fighter (1909)
The Return of Peter Grimm (1912) Novelised from the Play by David Belasco
The Woman (1912)
Around the World in Thirty Days (1914)
Dad (1914) written with Sinclair Lewis
The Story of Damon and Pythias (1915)
Superwomen (1916) Republished as: Famous Hussies Of History (1943)
Dollars and Cents (1917)
The Years of the Locust (1917)
Fortune (1918)
Wonder Women In History (1918)
Lad : A Dog (1919) Start of his switch to mostly writing about his dogs; Made into a live-action film in 1962.
Bruce (1920)
Buff: A Collie (1921)
The Man In the Dark (1921)
His Dog (1922)
Black Gold (1922)
Black Caesar’s Clan (1922)
Further Adventures of Lad (1922) Republished as: Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1941)
The Pest (1923)
Lochinvar Luck (1923)
The Amateur Inn (1923)
Treve (1924)
The Tiger’s Claw (1924)
The Heart of a Dog (1924)
Now That I’m Fifty (1925)
The Runaway Bag (1925)
Wolf (1925)
Najib (1925)
Treasure (1926) Republished as: The Faith of a Collie” (1949)
My Friend The Dog (1926)
Gray Dawn (1927)
The Luck of the Laird (1927) Republished as: A Highland Collie” (1950)
Bumps (1927)
Blundell’s :Last Guest (1927)
Water! (1928)
Black Wings (1928)
The Secret of Sea-Dream House (1929)
Lad of Sunnybank (1929)
To The Best Of My Memory (1930)
Diana Thorne’s Dog Basket: A Series of Etchings (1930)
Proving Nothing (1930)
A Dog Named Chips (1931)
The Son Of God (1932)
The Dog Book (1932)
The Way of a Dog (1932)
Letters of Marque (1934)
The Book Of Sunnybank (1934) Republished as: Sunnybank: Home of Lad (1953)
Real Tales of Real Dogs (1935)
True Dog Stories (1936)
The Critter And Other Dogs (1936)
Unseen! (1937)
The Terhune Omnibus (1937) Republished as The Best-Loved Dog Stories Of Albert Payson Terhune in 1954.
A Book of Famous Dogs (1937) Republished as: Famous Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1937)
Grudge Mountain (1939) Republished as: Dog of the High Sierras” (1951)
Dogs (1940)
Loot! (1940) Republished as: Collie to The Rescue (1952)
Across The Line (1945) With notes and commentary by Anice Terhune)
Wallace: Glasgow’s Immortal Fire Dog (1961)
Great Dog Stories (1994) Collects five stories from The Heart of a Dog and five from My Friend The Dog.