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Here are the top 2,100 authors and 1,000 illustrators from the whole heritage of children’s literature. And also the top Editors, Translators, and Compilers.

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Jane Langton

Jane Gillson Langton (born December 30, 1922) is an American writer and author of children’s literature. She both writes and illustrates her novels.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1922 - 0 B.C.

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Yolande Langworthy

Yolande Langworthy was a Canadian singer, writer and poet. She sang on American radio stations as early as 1922 under her married name of Frances Reade. At CBS, she became a famed writer, director, and producer. She was the director of at least three... View More

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Author

Lived:
1892 - 1976

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Sidney Lanier

Sidney Clopton Lanier was born in Macon, Georgia. He was a lawyer, musician (flautist), poet, composer, author and academic. He contracted tuberculosis while in a Union prisoner of war camp, leading to his early death.

Type:
Author
Editor

Lived:
1842 - 1881

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Henry Wysham Lanier

Henry Wysham Lanier was an American author, as well as the editor of The Golden Book Magazine.

Type:
Editor

Lived:
1873 - 1958

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Julius J. Lankes

Julius J. Lankes was an American woodcut artist who first trained as a technical illustrator.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1884 - 1960

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Paul Valentine Lantz

Paul Valentine Lantz was an American realist painter and muralist. During World War II, he traveling with an infantry-combat division overseas. After the war, he taught. He illustrated more than thirty-five children’s books. We have not yet fou... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1908 - 2000

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Javi Laparra

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Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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David Larkin

At the age of fourteen, David Larkin began working as an artist at a London illustration studio. David Larkin has come to be recognized internationally as one of the primary portrayers of rural America.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1946 - 0 B.C.

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Giles Laroche

Giles Laroche is an American artist and illustrator. He is interested in landscape forms, cityscapes, ruins, and travels. His website.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1956 - 0 B.C.

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Nancy Larrick

Nancy Larrick was an internationally recognized expert on reading whose parents’ and teachers’ guides persuaded generations of young people to tackle literature. She edited 20 anthologies of poetry for children. Larrick earned a bachelor&... View More

Type:
Editor

Lived:
1930 - 2004

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Jean Lee Latham

Jean Lee Latham was an American writer who specialized in biographies for children or young adults. For Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, she won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1956.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1902 - 1995

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa, O.P.)

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. After the death of her husband, she founded a hospice for cancer patients under the patronage of St. Rose of Lima. In 1900 she became foundress of a Dominican order named The Servants of... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1851 - 1926

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Dorothy P. Lathrop

Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was an American writer and illustrator of children’s books. Lathrop was born in Albany, New York. During her lifetime of achievements, her notable prominence in the publishing world of children’s literature includes ... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1891 - 1980

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West Lathrop

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Type:
Author

Lived:
1892 - 0 B.C.

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Louise Payson Latimer

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Sarah Briggs Latimore

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Author

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Deborah Nourse Lattimore

Deborah Nourse Lattimore began writing and illustrating books for young and zesty readers when she was in the 6th grade at Beverly Hills California. Asked to write something about ancient Egypt for a local paper competition, she won the contest with ... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1949 - 0 B.C.

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Josephine Sanger Lau

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Author

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Paul Laume

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Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Keith Laumer

John Keith Laumer (June 9, 1925 – January 23, 1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a U.S. diplomat. His brother March Laumer was also a writer, ... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1925 - 1993

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