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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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Barbara Dillon

Barbara Dillon was born in Montclair, New Jersey, and received a B.A. degree in English from Brown University. She worked for seven years as an editorial assistant for The New Yorker magazine and sold her first story to Woman’s Day magazine at ... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1927 - 0 B.C.

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Leo Dillon

Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon were American illustrators of children’s books and adult paperback book and magazine covers. One obituary of Leo called the work of the husband-and-wife team “a seamless amalgam of both their hands.”... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1933 - 2012

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Diane Dillon

Diane Dillon (née Sorber) and Leo Dillon were American illustrators of children’s books and adult paperback book and magazine covers. One obituary of Leo called the work of the husband-and-wife team “a seamless amalgam of both thei... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1933 - 0 B.C.

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Carolyn Dinan

Carolyn Dinan is an award-winning Irish illustrator. She wrote and illustrated 14 books. And illustrated 200 books. She teaches and lectures. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you... View More

Type:
Illustrator

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

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Raymond L. Ditmars

Raymond Lee Ditmars was an American herpetologist, writer, public speaker and pioneering natural history filmmaker.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1876 - 1942

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Beulah Marie Dix (Beulah Marie Dix Flebbe)

Beulah Marie Dix was an American screenwriter, as well as a playwright and author of novels and children's books.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1876 - 1970

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Franklin W. Dixon

Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors including Leslie McFarlane.

Type:
Author

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

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A. A. Dixon

Arthur Augustus Dixon was an English illustrator. He produce illustrations for dozens of books. 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:
1872 - 1959

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Maynard Dixon

Lafayette Maynard Dixon was a noted illustrator and painter of the early 20th-century American West. He often dressed like a cowboy, wearing a black Stetson hat, boots, and a bola tie.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1875 - 1946

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Frank Dobias

Frank Dobias was born in the Styrian mountains in Austria. He studied art in Vienna and Italy. He was a successful illustrator of children’s books. His version of Little Black Sambo was a best seller in Japan.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1902 - 0 B.C.

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Austin Dobson

Henry Austin Dobson was a British poet, biographer and essayist.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1840 - 1921

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James Mapes Dodge

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Type:
Illustrator

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

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Louis Dodge

Born in Burlington, Iowa, Louis Dodge followed his father into the newspaper business, with a break to serve in the Spanish American War where he participated in the reduction of Manila. His first novel Bonnie May was published by Scribners in 1916 a... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1870 - 1952

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Dick Dodge

Richard Staples ("Dick") Dodge was an American artist and illustrator of books and records. Born January 18, 1917 in Sacramento, California, he attended the Cincinnati Art Academy before moving to Westport, Connecticut to work at Columbia Records in ... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1917 - 1974

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Mary Mapes Dodge

Mary Mapes Dodge was an American children’s writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker.

Type:
Author
Editor

Lived:
1831 - 1905

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Charles Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a real person. He wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1832 - 1898

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Kenneth Dodson

Captain Kenneth Dodson served in the merchant marine and in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He wrote several novels based on his experiences.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1907 - 1999

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Maurice Dolbier

Maurice Dolbier was a book editor of The New York Herald Tribune and The Providence Journal-Bulletin, an actor and the author of children’s books. Mr. Dolbier wrote two novels, six children’s books and several plays. He became literary ed... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
0 B.C. - 1993

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Sister Mary Jean Dorcy

Sister Mary Jean was born in 1914 in Anacortes, Washington, the youngest of nine children. After finishing high school, she enrolled in the University of Washington. At the end of her freshman year, she became a member of the Dominican Sisters of Edm... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1914 - 1988

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Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He worked primarily with wood-engraving.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1832 - 1883

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