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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.
Sarah Whitman
Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman was an American stained glass artist, painter, and book cover designer. She founded her own firm and was a member of the board of the Harvard University Annex.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1842 - 1904
Geoffrey Whittam
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1916 - 1983
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery. He is particularly remembered for his book Snow-Bound.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1807 - 1892
T. M. R. Whitwell
T. M. R. Whitwell started his career as a lithographic artist. He went on to illustrate quite a number of P. G. Wodehouse’s earliest books, thereby defining the look and feel of one of the most abidingly popular novelists.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1868 - 1928
Leonard Wibberley
Type:
Author
Lived:
1915 - 1983
Dan Wickenden
Born in Pennsylvania of English parentage, Leonard Daniel WIckenden was educated at Amherst College. He worked as an editor for Harcourt, Brace and Company and published several novels and one children’s fantasy.
Type:
Author
Editor
Lived:
1913 - 1989
Frances Gillespy Wickes
Type:
Author
Lived:
1875 - 1967
Rose Wickey
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Type:
Author
Lived:
1876 - 1948
Gustavus C. Widney
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1871 - 0 B.C.
Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie Widor was a French organist and composer.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1844 - 1937
Ester Wier
Type:
Author
Lived:
1910 - 2000
Kurt Wiese
Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 - May 27, 1974) was an award-winning German-born book illustrator. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children’s books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.
Type:
Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1887 - 1974
David Wiesner
Type:
Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1956 - 0 B.C.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1856 - 1923
Michael Wigglesworth
Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) was a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1631 - 1705
Octavia Wilberforce
Octavia Margaret Wilberforce was an English physician. She was in general practice, and ran a women’s shelter.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1888 - 1963
Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur is a poet, essayist and translator of the classic French dramatists. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and served as poet laureate of the United States.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1921 - 0 B.C.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1854 - 1900
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Type:
Author
Lived:
1867 - 1957