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Authors & Illustrators

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.

Ford Madox Hueffer

Ford Madox Ford (né Ford Hermann Hueffer was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor. His journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1873 - 1939

Richard Hughes

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. He wrote four novels.

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1900 - 1976

Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1902 - 1967

George Hughes

George Hughes was a successful commercial artist whose work included covers for The Saturday Evening Post as well as book illustration.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1907 - 1989

Shirley Hughes

Shirley Hughes was an author and illustrator of children’s books.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1927 - 0 B.C.

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 – March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a less... View More

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Author

Lived:
1822 - 1896

Arthur Hughes

Born in London, Arthur Hughes was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Over his long career he produced over 700 paintings and drawings and 750 book illustrations.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1832 - 1925

Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers.

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Author

Lived:
1802 - 1885

Nancy Fielding Hulick

Nancy Fielding Hulick wrote several beloved titles for the classic Little Golden Books series, including A Day on the Farm, illustrated by J. P. Miller. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any informat... View More

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Author

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

Katharine Hull

Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock met when they were school children (fourteen and fifteen respectively), whilst sheltering from a thunderstorm. They discovered shared interests and decided to write a story about ponies set on Exmoor, called The Far... View More

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Author

Lived:
1921 - 1977

John Hulls

John Hulls has worked as an aerodynamicist for, among others, the U.S. Dep’t of Energy. 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:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

Claes Leonard Hultgren

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Author

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

Gertrude Hume

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Author

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

Emily Gertrude Hume

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Author

Lived:
1879 - 0 B.C.

Graham Humphreys

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Illustrator

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

James Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. He was a colorful individual and an ambitious writer.

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Author

Lived:
1857 - 1921

Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hungerford)

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, was an Irish novelist. Her light romantic fiction was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th century.

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Author

Lived:
1855 - 1897

T. S. Hunner

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Illustrator

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

Margaret Hunt

Margaret Raine Hunt was a British novelist and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. She also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont.

Type:
Translator

Lived:
1831 - 1912

Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. He introduced Keats, Shelley, Browning and Tennyson to the public.

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Author

Lived:
1784 - 1859

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