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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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Catherine Salton

Catherine Salton was born in Chicago Heights in Illinois. When she was six years old, her family moved to London, England. Before returning to the United States, her family visited virtually every major cathedral in England and Catherine became fasci... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1963 - 0 B.C.

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Robert Samber

Robert Samber was a British writer and translator. He was the English translator of the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please co... View More

Type:
Translator

Lived:
1682 - 1745

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Linley Sambourne

Edward Linley Sambourne was an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine Punch.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1844 - 1910

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John G. Samson

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Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler

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

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Daniel San Souci

Daniel San Souci was born in San Francisco and grew up across the bay in Berkeley, California. His Father worked for the University of California. At one point Professor Guido Greganti, who was a world-famous Italian portrait painter stayed with the ... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1948 - 0 B.C.

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Robert D. San Souci

Robert D. San Souci is a multiple award winning children’s book author, residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. He often works with his brother, Daniel San Souci, who is a children’s book illustrator. He was a consultant to Disney Studios... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1946 - 0 B.C.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He was the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Sandburg “indubitably an Americ... View More

Type:
Author
Editor

Lived:
1878 - 1967

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Ruth Sanderson

Ruth Sanderson is a prolific American illustrator of children’s books.

Here is her website: http://goldenwoodstudio.com/

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1951 - 0 B.C.

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Marjorie Bartlett Sanger

Marjory Bartlett Sanger was an ornithologist and author. She took part in numerous birding expeditions. She penned World of the Great White Heron.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1920 - 1998

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Charles Santore

Charles Santore is an award winning American illustrator best known for his children’s books. Each book takes him two years to complete.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1935 - 0 B.C.

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Tony Sarg

Tony Sarg was a children’s book illustrator and marionette-maker. He opened a small chain of kiddie stores and produced toys and books and puzzles.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1882 - 1942

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John Singer Sargent

Born in Florence, Italy, of American parents, Sargent spent most of his life in Europe. He was a society portraitist of unsurpassed craftsmanship.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1856 - 1925

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Sarah Sargent

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Type:
Author

Lived:
1937 - 0 B.C.

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Louise Saunders (Louise Saunders Perkins)

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Type:
Author

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

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Marshall Saunders (Margaret Marshall Saunders)

Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE was a prolific Canadian writer of children’s stories and romance novels, a lecturer, and an animal rights advocate.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1861 - 1947

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R. H. Sauter

Rudolf Helmut Sauter was a British painter, printmaker, illustrator and poet. Most of his work was figurative. But later in life he did a series of pastel abstracts. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any informat... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1895 - 1977

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Stephen Savage

Stephen Savage is an American author and illustrator of nine books for children. He is an adjunct instructor at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. His website. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do you have any inform... View More

Type:
Illustrator

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

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Constance Winifred Savery

Constance Winifred Savery was a British author of fifty novels and children's books, as well as many short stories and articles.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1897 - 1999

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Malcolm Saville

A prolific British author of children’s books who also worked as an editor. His Lone Pine series of books was very popular.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1901 - 1982

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Al Savitt

Al Savitt was born Alfred Savitz and grew up in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He early decided he would be an artist. After studies at the Pratt Institute he became a freelance artist, specializing in horses. He took on the care of his agent Illiana in... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1922 - 2009

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