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Authors & Illustrators
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.
Barbara Euphan Todd
Barbara Euphan Todd was a British children’s author best known for a series of ten books about Worzel Gummidge, an animated scarecrow.
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Author
Lived:
1890 - 1976
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1892 - 1973
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien
Third and youngest son and literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Author
Editor
Translator
Compiler
Lived:
1924 - 0 B.C.
Karen Tolley
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
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Author
Lived:
1828 - 1910
Margot Tomes
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1917 - 1991
Jane Tompkins (Jane Tompkins McConnell)
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Author
Lived:
1898 - 0 B.C.
Christopher Thomas Tower
Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Christopher Tower was a Persian and Arabic scholar and poet. He established the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize at Oxford University.
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Author
Editor
Translator
Lived:
1915 - 1998
George M. Towle
George Makepeace Towle was a noted author who translated Jules Verne works into English and wrote biographies of naval explorers. He is known for painting portraits of ships.
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Translator
Lived:
1841 - 1893
William Townend
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Author
Illustrator
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Lee Townsend
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1895 - 1965
Louis Tracy
Louis Tracy was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century
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Author
Lived:
1863 - 1928
Arthur Train (Arthur Cheney, Chesney Train)
Arthur Train was an American lawyer and author. He was best-known for his long-running series of short stories about an attorney named Ephraim Tutt. They were published in The Saturday Evening Post.
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Author
Lived:
1875 - 1945
P. L. Travers
Type:
Author
Lived:
1899 - 1886
Mary Treadgold
Type:
Author
Lived:
1910 - 2001
Geoffrey Trease
Type:
Author
Lived:
1909 - 1998
Meriol Trevor
Meriol Trevor was an English author. She wrote enchanting children’s books, and was one of the most prolific Roman Catholic women writers of the twentieth century.
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Author
Lived:
1919 - 2000
Henry Treece
Henry Treece (December 22, 1911 – June 10, 1966) was a British poet and writer, who worked also as a teacher and editor. He wrote a range of works, but became mainly remembered as a writer of juvenile historical novels.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1911 - 1966