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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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Dorothy Dakin

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Type:
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1897 - 1961

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Ralph Alan Dale

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Type:
Author

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

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Nellie Dale

Ellen “Nellie” Dale was a British school teacher who created one of the earliest books on teaching reading. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please con... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1865 - 1967

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Alice Dalgliesh

Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American author and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children. She has been called “a pioneer in the field of children’s historical fiction”. Three of her b... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1893 - 1979

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Marcia Dalphin

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Type:
Editor
Compiler

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

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Kathleen N. Daly

Kathleen N. Daly was the author and editor of a wide range of children’s books. She worked as an editor at Golden Books in the 1960s. She wrote many popular Little Golden Books including The Good Humor Man, Jingle Bells, and Richard Scarry&rsqu... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1930 - 0 B.C.

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George Dalziel

George Dalziel and his brother Edward Dalziel were engravers. They founded a wood-engraving business in London. They worked with the leading artists of their day to produce important illustrations for the burgeoning magazine and book market of the pe... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1815 - 1902

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Edward Dalziel

Edward Dalzie was an English engraver, working with his brother George to work on many important nineteenth-century book illustrations. They were the leading Victorian wood-engravers.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1817 - 1905

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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawye... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1815 - 1882

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Guy Daniels

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Type:
Author

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

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Michael Danoff

I. Michael Danoff is an art historian and a curator. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1940 - 0 B.C.

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Helen Fern Daringer

Helen Fern Daringer was born in 1892 in eastern Illinois. Independent and way ahead of her time, Ms. Daringer graduated from Eastern Illinois University, obtained a Master’s Degree in English, and headed to New York City, where she became a pro... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1892 - 1986

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Louis Darling

Louis Darling, Jr. was an American illustrator, writer, and environmentalist, best known for illustrating the Henry Huggins series and other children’s books written by Beverly Cleary. He and his wife Lois provided illustrations for the first e... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1916 - 1970

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Jennie Darlington

Jennie Darlington (née Zobrist) was an American explorer and, with Jackie Ronne, one of the first women to overwinter on Antarctica.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1924 - 2017

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Jane Darrah

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Type:
Editor
Compiler

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

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F. J. Harvey Darton (Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton)

F. J. Harvey Darton was the scion of a long line of British publishers. He wrote, among others, several retellings of traditional English romances. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could shar... View More

Type:
Author
Editor

Lived:
1878 - 1936

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Sir George Webbe Dasent

Sir George Webbe Dasent was a translator of folk tales and a contributor to The Times. He translated Popular Tales from the Norse, which was the most comprehensive collection of Norwegian folk tales. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of thi... View More

Type:
Editor
Translator

Lived:
1817 - 1896

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Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée Daudet, and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1840 - 1897

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Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty

Sonia Medvedeva was the wife of James Daugherty. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1893 - 0 B.C.

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Harry Daugherty

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Type:
Illustrator

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

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