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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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B. Sidney Woolf

Bella Sidney Woolf OBE was an English author. She wrote several children’s books, all drawing on her various overseas experiences.

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Author

Lived:
1877 - 1960

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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was a real person. She wrote under the pseudonym of Susan Coolidge.

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Author

Lived:
1835 - 1905

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age.

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Author

Lived:
1770 - 1850

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Michael Preston Worley

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Editor

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

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Joanna Worth

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Illustrator

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Sir Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, third Baronet

Sir Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, third Baronet, was a miscellaneous writer. In 1862, he made the authorised British translation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you ha... View More

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Author
Translator

Lived:
1828 - 1865

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P. C. Wren

Percival Christopher Wren (November 1, 1875 – November 22, 1941) was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its m... View More

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Author

Lived:
1875 - 1941

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Joe Wright

Joseph Wright was a popular English cartoonist and illustrator of children’s books. He was educated at the Royal College of Art in London. He illustrated some of the hugely successful books by Allan Ahlberg, most notably Mr Cosmo the Conjuror (... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1947 - 2017

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Richardson L. Wright

Richardson L. Wright was an author and lecturer, as well as the editor of House & Garden magazine from 1914-1946. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please conta... View More

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Editor

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

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Robert Murray Wright

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Illustrator

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

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Minnie Wright

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Author
Editor

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

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Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel Osgood Wright was an American author. She was an early leader in the Audubon movement and wrote extensively about nature and birds.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1934

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Ch’eng-en Wu

Wu Cheng’en was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, and is considered by many to be the author of Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In traditional Chinese, his name is ???. In simpli... View More

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Author

Lived:
1500 - 1582

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Eva-Lis Wuorio

Eva-Lis Wuorio was a Finnish author. She emigrated to Canada, worked for a newspaper, and published eighteen novels and one short story collection.

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Author

Lived:
1917 - 1988

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Jerome Wyckoff

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1911 - 0 B.C.

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N. C. Wyeth

Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America’s greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated... View More

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Author
Illustrator
Editor

Lived:
1882 - 1945

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Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Newell Wyeth was one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. He did some book illustrations in his early career. His father was N. C. Wyeth.... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1917 - 2009

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Rose Wyler

Rose Wyler earned her B.A. from Barnard and a master degree from Teacher’s College at Columbia. She wrote more than 50 books for children on science and other topics. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth or photograph of this person. ... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
0 B.C. - 2000

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Herbert E. Wyman

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Author

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

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Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss (May 28, 1743 – January 11, 1818) is best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson). It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story fr... View More

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Author

Lived:
1743 - 1818

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