Llywelyn made a switch in her career in 1990 as she began to focus her writing on a younger audience.

She would become a full Irish citizen and make her home in Dublin. She would live in the United States for some time, but after the death of her parents and then her husband in 1985, she relocated back to Ireland. Later in her career, she would be named the Woman of the Year Award from the Irish-American Heritage Committee for Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish that was presented to her by the mayor of New York City. She won the Novel of the Year Award from the National League of American Penwomen for her novel, The Horse Goddess. Throughout her career, Llyywelyn has been decorated for her writing. It would start her career in writing as well and lead to her writing The Winds from Hastings. She had a lot of pride in her Welsh connetion and is what lead her to digging into the subject. Her mother’s side of the family has Welsh roots that go back to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and Llywelyn the Great. Her first project was tracing the Llywelyn family history and eventually made a career out of writing historical novels that allowed the exploration of her Celtic roots. She would publish an article on horse training and from there her mother encouraged her to continue writing. She just missed the cut and was shortlisted instead.

Her love of horses would career her to working as a horse trainer and instructor, and she later turied out for the 1976 United States Olympic Team in dressage. By the time she turned 18, she started to work as a model for brands like Neiman Marcus. It was here that she found a love of horses and eventually began competing in professional horse shows across the country. She would live in New York until her teens when she moved to the Dallas area. Llywelyn was born in New York in 1937 with the name Sally Snyder. She debuted with The Wind from Hastings in 1978 and then had her first big seller with Lions of Ireland in 1980. During her writing career, she sold more than 40 million copies and received several awards for her work including being named as the recipient of the 1999 Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award from Celtic Women International. Morgan Llywelyn is an American-Irish author who wrote historical and mythological fiction as well as historical non-fiction.

The Horse Goddess by Morgan Llywelyn