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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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Ed Young (Tse-Chun Young)

Born in Tianjin, China, Ed Young came to America in 1951 to study architecture. He discovered he was more interested in art and began illustrating children’s books in 1962.

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Lived:
1931 - 0 B.C.

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Sylvia Yount

Dr. Sylvia Yount is a Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has lectured and published widely on late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do you have any ... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Betty Yurdin

Betty Yurdin was born in Milwaukee and attended Montana State College. She published stories in children’s magazines. The mother of two children, she later moved to Denmark. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth or photograph of this p... View More

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Barry Zaid

Barry Zaid is a Canadian graphic artist and designer. He has been producing drawings and graphic design for magazines, books, advertising, product design and packaging for forty years. Here is a link to his own website.... View More

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Lived:
1938 - 0 B.C.

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Claudia Zaslavski

Claudia Zaslavsky was an educator, and ethno mathematician. She advanced the study of the links between mathematics and world cultures, especially with her pioneering book Africa Counts.

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Lived:
1917 - 2006

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Paul O. Zelinsky

Paul O. Zelinsky is an American illustrator and writer best known for illustrating children’s picture books. He won the 1998 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Rapunzel. His website.... View More

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Lived:
1953 - 0 B.C.

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Margaret Stone Zilboorg

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Paul Zindel, Jr.

Zindel was born in Staten Island, New York. Along with his mother and sister, Zindel moved arougn Staten Island after his father left his family. Zindel became an educator and wrote novels for teens and young adults.

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Lived:
1936 - 2003

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Gene Zion

Educated at the New School for Social Research and the Pratt Institute, Eugene (Gene) Zion was working for Conde Nast publications when he met and married Margaret Bloy Graham. He wrote several picture books illustrated by her, most famously the Harr... View More

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Lived:
1913 - 1975

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Jack David Zipes

Jack David Zipes was an American academic, specializing in fairy tale literature.

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Lived:
1937 - 0 B.C.

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Lynn Zirkel

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Era Zistel (Era Zistel Posselt)

Era Posselt (Zistel) was an author and personal friend of George Sylvester Viereck. She has published work in the The Saturday Evening Post. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you coul... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (R. F. Zogbaum)

Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum was an American illustrator, journalist, and writer. His works were regularly featured in Harper’s Weekly magazine. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share ... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1849 - 1925

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, playwright, and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice.

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Charlotte Zolotow

Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26, 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children (HarperCollins puts her number of “books for young audiences” at over sev... View More

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Lived:
1915 - 2013

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Heinrich Zschokke

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

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