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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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F. S. Ellis (Frederick Startridge Ellis)

Frederick Startridge Ellis was a British book dealer, publisher and poet.

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Author

Lived:
1830 - 1901

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Richard Williamson Ellis

Richard Williamson Ellis pursued an education in metallurgy before his illustrious sixty-year career in book designing and printing.

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Author

Lived:
1895 - 1982

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Virginia H. Ellison

Virginia Howell Ellison was an American author of children’s fiction and non-fiction. 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

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Author

Lived:
1910 - 0 B.C.

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G. Montague Ellwood (George Montague Ellwood)

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Author

Lived:
1875 - 1955

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Horace Elmo

Horace T. Elmo

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

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H. Elrington (Helen Elrington)

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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George Herbert Ely

George Herbert Ely was an English author. He and Charles James L'Estrange wrote under the pseudonym of Herbert Strang, producing adventure stories for boys.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1866 - 1958

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Lars Emanuelsson

Lars Emanuelsson is a Swedish author and visual communicator.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a prolific nineteenth century American essayist, was best know as leader of the transcendentalist movement, defined by his aunt as “a strange mixture of atheism and false independence.”

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Author

Lived:
1803 - 1882

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Caroline Emerson

Caroline Dwight Emerson was an American author specializing in children’s literature. She wrote more than 20 children's books, including A Hat-Tub Tale (1928). Her father was Professor Benjamin Kendall Emerson (1843-1932), an American geologist... View More

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Author

Lived:
1891 - 1973

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Henry Pendexter Emerson

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Author

Lived:
1846 - 1930

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Edwin Emerson

Edwin A. Emerson, Jr. was an Amarican author and war Correspondent. As a spy, he attained a map that helped prepare the American invasion of Germany. Then he joined the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry, better known as the Rough Riders, and became Theodore R... View More

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Author

Lived:
1869 - 1959

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Eminent Artists

Some books involved so many eminent people that we can’t list them all. So we say “Eminent Artists.”

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Illustrator

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

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Bruce Emmett

Bruce Emmett is an artist and illustrator. He has years of experience at the drawing board, easel and computer. 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 contact ... View More

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Illustrator

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

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Duncan Emrich

Duncan Emrich was a professor of English at Columbia University. Then he joined the U.S. Army. During World War II he achieved the rank of major as the official American historian in the Secretary of the General Staff’s office, Supreme Headquar... View More

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Author

Lived:
1908 - 1977

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Ed Emshwiller (Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer)

Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was an American artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustrations as Emsh but sometimes used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer and others.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1925 - 1990

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Rodney K. Engen

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Author

Lived:
1948 - 0 B.C.

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R. J. Enraght-Moony (Robert James Enraght Moony)

Robert James Enraght Moony was born in Ireland and studied art in Paris at the Académie Julian. He lived in Cornwall and showed his work in London with a range of groups including the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club. He was known ma... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1879 - 1946

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Elizabeth Enright

Elizabeth Enright Gillham (1909–1968), was an American writer of children’s books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal winning author... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1909 - 1968

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Maginel Wright Enright

Maginel Wright Enright Barney (June 19, 1881 – April 18, 1966) was a children’s book illustrator and graphic artist, younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, and mother of Elizabeth Enright, children’s book author and illustrator.... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1881 - 1966

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