Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton (born 1929) is a British author.
Born in Birmingham, Peyton has written more than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards pony stories and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award. In 1979 these were made into a 13 part television series, Flambards, which starred Christine McKenna as the novels' heroine Christina Parsons.
