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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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Robert de Veyrac

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.

Type:
Illustrator

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

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Cornelius Hugh De Witt

Cornelius Hugh de Witt was born in Germany and trained in Europe. Started children’s illustrations around 1938. Did many books for Western Publishing, Artists and Writers Guild and Little Golden Books. His papers are held by the University of O... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1905 - 1995

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Agnes Louise Dean

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Author

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

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Nathaniel Dearborn

Nathaniel Dearborn was a was a wood engraver in Boston. He apprenticed under Abel Bowen. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1786 - 1852

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Sjowkje Troelstra-Bokma deBoer

Sjoukje Maria Diderika Troelstra-Bokma de Boer was a real person. She is better known under her pseudonym of Ninke van Hichtum.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1860 - 1939

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as ... View More

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Author

Lived:
1660 - 1731

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Olive Dehn

Olive Dehn was an English poet, writer, and farmer. She was the author of a dozen children's novels. She satirized Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1914 - 2007

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Lulu Delacre

Lulu Delacre (born December 20, 1957) is the author/illustrator of many award winning children’s books. Some of her most famous works include Arroz con leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America, Vejigante Masquerader, and The Bossy Gal... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1957 - 0 B.C.

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Étienne Delessert

Étienne Delessert is a Swiss graphic artist best known for his animated series Yok-Yok and his work with Jean Piaget.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1941 - 0 B.C.

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Jeffrey Dell

Jeffrey F. Dell was a British writer, screenwriter, and film director. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1899 - 1985

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Therese O. Deming

Born on 1873 to Henry Osterheld and Katharine Eickemeyer, Therese O. married Edwin Willard Deming and had 4 children. She passed away on 4 Jul 1945. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could sha... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1873 - 1945

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Edwin Willard Deming

Edwin Willard Deming was a painter of Indian and animal subjects in the West, beginning 1887. He was a sculptor, muralist, illustrator, and writer. He studied at the Art Students League until 1884, then in Paris for a year with Boulanger and Lefebvre... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1860 - 1942

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E. J. Detmold

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold were prolific Victorian book illustrators.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1883 - 1957

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Al Dempster

Albert Taylor Dempster (July 23, 1911 - June 28, 2001) was one of the tyro background artists at Disney’s in its “Golden Era” years, and after. He retired from the studio in the early seventies.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1911 - 2001

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Carol Denison

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Author

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

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no first name Dennis

Illustrated the dust jacket for Goat Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler. 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:
Illustrator

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

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Patrick Dennis

Patrick Dennis was a pseudonym of American author Edward Everett Tanner III. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Virginia Rowans... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1921 - 1976

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Wesley Dennis

John Wesley Dennis was an American illustrator, known best for fifteen children’s books about horses that he created in collaboration with Marguerite Henry. He illustrated over 150 books in his lifetime,... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1903 - 1966

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Jenny Dennis

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Type:
Author

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

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W. W. Denslow

William Wallace Denslow – usually credited as W. W. Denslow – was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Fre... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1856 - 1915

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