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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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Dave Griffiths

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Type:
Illustrator

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

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G. P. Griggs (George Philip Griggs)

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Type:
Editor

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

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Joseph Grimaldi

Joseph Grimaldi was an English actor, clown and dancer. He was the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1778 - 1837

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Ludwig Grimm

Ludwig Emil Grimm was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver. His brothers were the well-known folklorists, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1790 - 1863

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Jacob Grimm

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. His brother was Wilhelm Grimm. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law (linguistics), the author (with his brother) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1785 - 1863

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Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author. His elder brother was Jacob Grimm. Together, they wrote as the Brothers Grimm.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1786 - 1859

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Sally Grindley

Sally Jane Grindley is an award-winning English author with over ninety books to her credit.

Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1953 - 0 B.C.

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Dirk Gringhuis

Richard H. “Dirk” Gringhuis (September 22, 1918 - March 1974) was an American artist and illustrator. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he studied from 1939-1941 at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, lived in New York for a year, then ... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1918 - 1974

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George Bird Grinnell

George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1849 - 1938

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Helen Mason Grose

Helen Mason Grose was a noted children’s book illustrator, based in Rhode Island. 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:
1880 - 1960

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Elizabeth H. Gross

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Type:
Editor
Compiler

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

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Thelma C. Grosvenor

Thelma Somerville Cudlipp was an American artist and book illustrator. She became well known as an illustrator for various newspapers and magazines. She married Edwin Grosvenor. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have ... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1891 - 1983

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Gary Groth

Gary Groth is an American comic book editor, publisher and critic. He is editor-in-chief of The Comics Journal and a co-founder of Fantagraphics Books.

Type:
Editor

Lived:
1954 - 0 B.C.

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Franz Xaver Gruber

Franz Xaver Gruber was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer. He lived in the village of Arnsdorf. He is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night).... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1787 - 1863

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Johnny Gruelle

Johnny Gruelle was an American artist, political cartoonist, children’s book author and illustrator, and songwriter. He is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1880 - 1938

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Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg was born in Austria, and then educated in Germany and in New York. She married Benjamin Charles Gruenberg in 1903. She was the executive director of the Child Study Association of America. She was the author, co-author, and ... View More

Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1881 - 1974

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F. R. Gruger

Born in Philadelphia, Fredric Rodrigo Gruger enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1890. It was during his early newspaper work at the Philadelphia Public Ledger that Gruger developed his signature “look” of Wolff pencil on... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1871 - 1953

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Giovanni Guareschi (Giovannino Guareschi)

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo.

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1908 - 1968

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Deborah Guarino

Having grown up in Newark, New Jersey, Deborah Guarino studied writing in the U.S. and in England. She has written radio plays, advertising copy and children’s books.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1954 - 0 B.C.

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Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber)

Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest was an English aristocrat. She was an expert in seven languages. She was the first to translate the Red Book of Hergest into English.

Type:
Author
Translator
Compiler

Lived:
1812 - 1895

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