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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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Marjorie Henderson Buell

Marjorie Henderson Buell was an American cartoonist who worked under the pen name Marge. She was best known as the creator of Little Lulu. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Buell was 16 when her first cartoon was published. In 1925, she created her... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1904 - 1993

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Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch was a blue blooded Boston banker who wrote a popular series based on European myths and legends.

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Author

Lived:
1796 - 1867

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Charles Livingston Bull

Charles Livingston Bull was an American illustrator who specialized in wildlife and outdoor subjects.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1874 - 1932

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Clyde Robert Bulla

Clyde Robert Bulla was the author of over fifty books for children. His first book, The Donkey Cart, was published in 1946.

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Author

Lived:
1914 - 2007

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Frank Bullen (Frank T. Bullen)

Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), British author and novelist, was born of poor parents in Paddington, London, on 5 April 1857, and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9 he left school a... View More

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Author

Lived:
1857 - 1915

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (Edward Bulwer Lytton)

A very popular British Victorian novelist and politician. He served as secretary of state for the colonies under the Earl of Derby and his son was Governor-General and Viceroy of India. His dissolute life style resulted in his wife divorcing him and ... View More

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Author
Editor
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Lived:
1803 - 1873

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Eve Bunting

Anne Evelyn Bunting was born in Maghera, Northern Ireland. She came to the United States with her family in 1958. She has written more than 250 books, mainly for children.

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Author

Lived:
1928 - 0 B.C.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan was a tinkerer by trade. But following a prolonged spiritual and emotional crisis, he turned to preaching and religious writing. His most famous work, Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegorical account of a Christian’s spiritual jo... View More

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Author

Lived:
1628 - 1688

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Clara M. Burd

Clara M. Burd was born at Times Square in New York. Se went to the Chase School and the National Academy of Design in New York. She went to Paris and worked under Courtois and Renardo. She studied stained glass design at the Tiffany studios in New Yo... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1873 - 1933

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Carl Burger

Carl V. Burger was an American artist and writer of children’s books. He is known for The Incredible Journey. He won the Newbery Honor twice.... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1888 - 1967

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Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children’s stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his ne... View More

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Author

Lived:
1874 - 1965

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Nancy Ekholm Burkert

Nancy Ekholm Burkert is an American artist and illustrator, first known for her 1961 illustrated book, the original edition of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Her most celebrated work, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), won the New York... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1933 - 0 B.C.

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Rand Burkert

Rand Burkert is the son of famous author Nancy Ekholm Burkert. He lives in Italy. His first book is Mouse & Lion. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please co... View More

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Author

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

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Eugene Watson Burlingame

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Author

Lived:
1876 - 1932

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Ben Lucien Burman

American writer best known for regional novels about the Mississippi River. He was married to illustrator Alice Caddy.

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Author

Lived:
1896 - 1984

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F. C. Burnand

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright.

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Author

Lived:
1836 - 1917

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess ... View More

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Author

Lived:
1849 - 1924

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Frances Burney

Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright.

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Author

Lived:
1752 - 1840

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Sheila Burnford

Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford, née Every, (11 May 1918 – 20 April 1984) was a British novelist. Born in Scotland but brought up in various parts of the United Kingdom, she attended St. George’s School, Edinburgh and Harrogate Lad... View More

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Author

Lived:
1918 - 1984

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

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Author

Lived:
1759 - 1796

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