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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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Charles Marion Russell (C.M. Russell)

Growing up in Missouri, Russell moved to the Montana Territory when he was sixteen. While working on a cattle ranch one of his small watercolors was sent to the owner who displayed it in a shop window in Helena. Soon he was receiving commissions for ... View More

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Lived:
1864 - 1926

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Leonard Russell

Leonard Russell was an English journalist and satirist, known for editing The Saturday Book. We have not yet found a reliable biography or year of birth of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Fox Russell

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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D. E. Russell

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Marisabina Russo

Marisabina Russo is a children’s book author and illustrator. She has written and illustrated over twenty books for children and young adults. Her most notable books include The Line Up Book and Always Remember Me. Here is her website: http://m... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1950 - 0 B.C.

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Megan Trever Ryan

Megan Trever Ryan is a classically trained fine artist and illustrator living in California. We have not yet found a reliable date of birth or 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

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Joanne Ryder

Joanne Ryder began her career as a children’s book editor but soon moved on to writing her own books. She specializes in books about the natural world.

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Author

Lived:
1946 - 0 B.C.

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Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant is an American author and librarian. She has written more than 100 children’s books, including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Several of her books have won awards, including her novel “Missing May,” which w... View More

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Author

Lived:
1954 - 0 B.C.

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Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure.

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Author

Lived:
1875 - 1950

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Edwin L. Sabin

Edwin Legrand Sabin was an American author, primarily of boys’ adventure stories, mostly set in the American West.

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Author

Lived:
1870 - 1952

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Marilyn Sachs

From her website: http://marilynsachs.com/ I was born in the Bronx, New York City. The street I lived on had no trees or flowers, but it had children – lots and lots of children. The street didn’t go anywhere important, and cars seldom ca... View More

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Author

Lived:
1927 - 2016

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Virginia Sackville-West

The Honorable Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer.

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Author

Lived:
1892 - 1962

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Juniper Sage

This is a Pseudonym for Margaret Wise Brown.

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Author

Lived:
1910 - 1952

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Alison Sage

Alison Sage has been a children’s editor and writer and anthologist for over twenty years. She has ran many courses on creative writing for children. Her Treasury of Children’s Literature won the “Children’s Book of the Year&r... View More

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

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George Saintsbury

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA , was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur.

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1845 - 1933

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Malcolm C. Salaman (M. C. Salaman)

Malcolm Charles Salaman was an English author, journalist and critic. 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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Author

Lived:
1855 - 1940

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Lucy Sale-Barker

Lucy Elizabeth Drummond Sale-Barker, née Davies, also known by her first married name Lucy Villiers, was a British children’s writer. She wrote the verses for Kate Greenaway’s popular Birthday Book for Children (1880). We have not ... View More

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Author

Lived:
1841 - 1892

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Harold J. Saleh

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

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Steven Salerno

Steven Salerno is an American illustrator, publishing illustrations for nearly 600 clients and illustrating twenty-five popular picture books for children. His website. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do you have any in... View More

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Illustrator

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

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Felix Salten

Seigmund (Felix Salten) Salzmann was born in Budapest, but his family soon moved to Vienna where he became a prominent journalist and author.

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Author

Lived:
1869 - 1945

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