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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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Mollie Rockwell

A teacher of English and wife of the famous illustrator.

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Author

Lived:
1896 - 1985

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Édouard Rod

Édouard Rod was a Swiss realistic novelist in the line of Zola, who later turned to novels of conscience.

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Author

Lived:
1857 - 1910

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Carolyn Rodgers

We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.

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

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Mary Rodgers

Mary Rodgers (born January 11, 1931) is an American composer of musicals and an author of children’s books. She is a daughter of composer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy Rodgers, as is her sister, Linda Rodgers Emory. She attended the pri... View More

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Author

Lived:
1931 - 0 B.C.

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Yves Rodier

Yves Rodier is a Franco-Québécois comic strip creator known for his many pastiches of The Adventures of Tintin.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1967 - 0 B.C.

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Katherine Roeder

Adjunct professor Katherine Roeder specializes in the art and visual culture of the United States, with an emphasis on comic art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do y... View More

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Editor
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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Herbert F. Roese

Herbert F. Roese was a prolific artist working in New York in the first half of the twentieth century. His work appeared in many magazine, including the old Life. He illustrated many popular novels. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of t... View More

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Illustrator

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Maureen Roffey

Maureen Roffey was a prolific children's book illustrator and author. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1936 - 0 B.C.

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Stanley Rogers

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Illustrator

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

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William Allen Rogers

William Allen Rogers was an American illustrator and political cartoonist. He succeeded Thomas Nast at Harper’s Weekly.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1854 - 1931

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Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers was born and raised in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and attended Dartmouth College before transferring to Rollins College where he earned a degree in music composition. He was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church. In 1954 he be... View More

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Author

Lived:
1928 - 2003

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Frances Rogers

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Author
Illustrator

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

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Cameron Rogers

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Author

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

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Rojan

Rojan was a pseudonym under which Feodor Rojankovsky published.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1891 - 1970

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Feodor Rojankovsky

Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (December 24, 1891 – October 12, 1970) was a Russian émigré illustrator. He won the 1956 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration from the American Library Association, recognizing Frog Wen... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1891 - 1970

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Nina Rojankovsky (Nina)

Nina Rojankovsky was the wife of Feodor Rojankovsky. She sometimes wrote under the pen name of Nina. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact u... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

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

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Philip Ashton Rollins

A New York lawyer, Phlip Ashton Rollins spent a good deal of his youth in the West and wrote many books about the West and cowboys.

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Author

Lived:
1869 - 1950

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Charlemae Rollins

Charlemae Hill Rollins was a pioneering librarian, author and storyteller in the area of African-American literature. She received an honorary life membership in the American Library Association, and a doctorate from Columbia College.

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Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1897 - 1979

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He won a record four presidential elections and became a central fig... View More

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Author

Lived:
1882 - 1945

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Phyllis Root

Phyllis Root has written many books for children. She is on the faculty of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Author

Lived:
1949 - 0 B.C.

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