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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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John Polgreen

John Polgreen was a successful American illustrator who specialized in space and science illustration. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please con... View More

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Daniel Alfred Poling

Daniel Alfred Poling was an American cleric and prohibitionist. He served in the United Brethren Church.

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Author
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Lived:
1884 - 1968

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Leo Politi

Leo Politi (1908–1996) was an Italian-American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children’s books, as well as Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (1964), intended for adults. His works often celebrated cultural diversity, and many ... View More

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Author
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Lived:
1908 - 1996

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Madeleine Polland

Madeleine A. Polland was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, on May 31, 1918. Her family moved to England to avoid the fighting during the Irish Rebellion. With three brothers and two sisters, Polland enjoyed her childhood as a tomboy. Later her a... View More

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Lived:
1918 - 0 B.C.

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Frank Pollard

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Alfred Pollard

Alfred William Pollard was Assistant Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, and an author and editor.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1944

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Welleran Poltarnees

Welleran Poltarnees is the pen name of pen name for Blue Lantern cofounder Harold Darling, an author best known for having written numerous “blessing books” that employ turn of the 20th century artwork. We have not yet found a reliable ye... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Charlotte Pomerantz

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Charles E. Pont

Charles Ernest Pont was born in Saint-Julien-en Genevois, France. His mother was unmarried and after taking him to New York City abandoned him. He was adopted by a German immigrant couple. He studied art at the Pratt Institute and Cooper Union and ha... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1898 - 1971

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Ernest Poole

Ernest Cook Poole was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. In 1918 he won the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Author

Lived:
1880 - 1950

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Popular Mechanics Co.

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular technology. First published January 11, 1902, by H. H. Windsor, it has been owned since 1958 by the Hearst Corporation.

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Author
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Editor

Lived:
1902 - 0 B.C.

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Janina Porazińska

Janina Porazińska was a Polish poet and novelist. Her books have been translated into many languages.

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Author

Lived:
1888 - 1971

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Elizabeth Portch

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Translator

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

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Isabelle MacDonald Porter

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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David Lord Porter

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Author

Lived:
1944 - 0 B.C.

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Jane Porter

Jane Porter was born in Durham and lived for a time in Edinburgh where she was a friend of Sir Walter Scott. Her novel The Scottish Chiefs was one of the first historical novels and was immensely popular. Her other works included plays and periodical... View More

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Author

Lived:
1776 - 1850

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Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. She mainly wrote children’s literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous children’s novel is Pollyanna (1913), later fol... View More

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Author

Lived:
1868 - 1920

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Christina Elizabeth Pothast-Gimberg

Christina Elizabeth Pothast-Gimberg was a Dutch writer of children’s books.

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Author

Lived:
1900 - 1975

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Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter (born Helen Beatrix Potter) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated th... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1866 - 1943

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Marian Potter

Marian Potter, born on January 9, 1915, in Blackwell, Missouri, was the daughter of Samuel and Flora (Bookstaver) McKinstry. Her father worked as a railroad station agent in Missouri, experience that played an important part of Potter’s young l... View More

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Author

Lived:
1915 - 1996

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