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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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Helene Carter (A. Helene Carter)

Illustrator Helene Carter was born in 1887 in Toronto, Ontario. As a child she knew she wanted to be an artist and studied at the Ontario School of Art. She worked for an advertising agency, traveled twice to Italy, and moved to New York where she di... View More

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Author
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Lived:
1887 - 1960

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Ada M. Skinner (Ada Maria Skinner)

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Author

Lived:
1878 - 0 B.C.

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Irving Bacheller (Addison Irving Bacheller)

Addison Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and writer. He founded the first modern newspaper syndicate, then pursued a full-time career as a fiction writer.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1950

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Adeline McCall (Adeline Denham McCall)

Adeline Denham McCall was a teacher of music and music appreciation. She taught music education and music history at Duke University and served as music supervisor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools for 30 years. We have not yet found a reliabl... View More

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Lived:
1900 - 1989

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Adjai Robinson (Adjai Nicholas Durosimi Robinson)

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Author

Lived:
1932 - 0 B.C.

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Miriam Agatha (Agatha le Breton)

Miriam Agatha was a pseudonym used by the Australian Catholic author Agatha Magdalen le Breton. She taught in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in Queensland, and used most of her spare time writing short stories and, later, a children's novel.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1886 - 1970

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A. C. Ward (Alfred Charles Ward)

Alfred Charles Ward was an English author and editor. 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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Editor
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Lived:
1891 - 1973

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A. E. W. Mason (Alfred Edward Woodley Mason)

Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich, London - 22 November 1948 London) was a British author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers. His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1865 - 1948

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Joyce Kilmer (Alfred Joyce Kilmer)

The American Roman Catholic poet and apologist was killed in action at the second battle of the Marne, leaving a widow and five children.

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Author

Lived:
1886 - 1918

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Alfred Tennyson (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. He remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Author

Lived:
1809 - 1892

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Alice Hazeltine (Alice Isabel Hazeltine)

Alice Isabel Hazeltine was the Supervisor of the Children’s Public Library in St. Louis, MO. 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
Editor

Lived:
1878 - 1959

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Ann Blades (Ann Sager Blades)

Ann Sager Blades is one of the foremost contemporary illustrators of children's stories. Her A Boy of Taché (1973) was inspired by her experience as a teacher in isolated communities.... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1947 - 0 B.C.

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Ann Scott Moncrieff (Ann Scott-Moncrieff)

Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a Scottish author. She wrote The White Drake and Other Tales.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1914 - 1943

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Tony Ross (Anthony Lee Ross)

Anthony Lee Ross is a British author and illustrator of children's picture books.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1938 - 0 B.C.

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Anthony West (Anthony Panther West Fairfield)

Anthony West was an English author and literary critic. He was author of novels, popular history and book reviews. He was born Anthony Panther West Fairfield, the son of British authors Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. His parents never married. We have... View More

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Author

Lived:
1914 - 1987

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Anthony R. Montalba (Anthony Reubens Montalba)

Anthony Whitehill was a Swedish-born British naturalized citizen who spent much of the latter part of his life in Venice. He was a painter and had four daughters who became successful artists. He sometimes worked under the alias of Anthony R. Montalb... View More

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Author
Editor
Translator
Compiler

Lived:
1812 - 1884

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Anthony Whitehill (Anthony Reubens Montalba)

Anthony Whitehill was a Swedish-born British naturalized citizen who spent much of the latter part of his life in Venice. He was a painter and had four daughters who became successful artists. He sometimes worked under the alias of Anthony R. Montalb... View More

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Author
Editor
Translator
Compiler

Lived:
1812 - 1884

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Antonio Joaquin Robles Soler (Antoniorrobles)

Spanish author of novels and children’s stories. He spent several years in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War.

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Author

Lived:
1895 - 1983

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James Willard Schultz (Apikuni)

James Willard Schultz was a western trader, trapper, scout and author. He went west at eighteen and married into the Piegan Blackfoot tribe.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1947

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Arthur Train (Arthur Cheney, Chesney Train)

Arthur Train was an American lawyer and author. He was best-known for his long-running series of short stories about an attorney named Ephraim Tutt. They were published in The Saturday Evening Post.

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Author

Lived:
1875 - 1945

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