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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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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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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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Lived:
1891 - 1973

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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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Lived:
1914 - 1943

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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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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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Lived:
1812 - 1884

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Barbara Sleigh (Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh)

Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh was a well-known British children’s writer and broadcaster.

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Lived:
1906 - 1982

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Bertha E. Mahony (Bertha Mahoney)

Bertha Everett Mahony is a figurehead of the children’s literature movement. She and her colleague Elinor Whitney founded The Horn Book Magazine. a respected arbiter of excellence in children’s publishing.... View More

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Lived:
1882 - 1969

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Bryna Untermeyer (Bryna Ivens Untermeyer)

Bryna Ivens was the fourth or fifth wife of American poet and anthologist Louis Untermeyer. She was the editor of Seventeen. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, pleas... View More

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Lived:
1909 - 1985

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Byrd Baylor Schweitzer (Byrd Baylor)

Byrd Baylor Schweitzer’s father was a gold miner and she grew up in the American southwest and northern Mexico where he pursued his trade. She now lives in an adobe house in Arizona. She has received Newbery Honors for four of her children&rsqu... View More

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Lived:
1924 - 0 B.C.

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C. G. Bjurström (Carl Gustaf Bjurström)

Raised in France, Carl Gustaf Bjurström was a literary critic and translator. He did translations from Swedish and French.

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Lived:
1919 - 2001

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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.

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Lived:
1812 - 1895

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Dorothy Canfield (Dorothy Frances Canfield Fisher)

Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Dorothy Canfield was one of the most popular novelists of the early twentieth century. She helped introduce the Montessori method to America and served for many years on the editorial board of the Book of the Month Club.... View More

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Lived:
1879 - 1958

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E. V. Knox (Edmund Valpy Knox)

Edmund George Valpy Knox was an English author, and the editor of Punch magazine from 1932 to 1949.

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Lived:
1881 - 1971

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (Edward Bulwer Lytton)

A very popular British Victorian novelist and politician. He served as secretary of state for the colonies under the Earl of Derby and his son was Governor-General and Viceroy of India. His dissolute life style resulted in his wife divorcing him and ... View More

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Lived:
1803 - 1873

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Eleanor M. Johnson (Eleanor Murdoch)

Eleanor M. Johnson was an educator and the founder of The Weekly Reader. It brought the news of the world to school children for nearly six decades.

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Lived:
1892 - 1987

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Elsa Jane Werner (Elsa J. Werner)

Jane Werner published under at least three different variations of her name: Jane Werner, Elsa Jane Werner (Elsa J. Werner), and Jane Werner Watson (Jane Watson). She was born in Fond du Lac Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin (M... View More

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Lived:
1915 - 2004

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Elsie Spicer Eells (Elsie Eusebia Spicer Eells)

Elsie Spicer Eells was an American author and a collector of tales from the Americas, Azores and Spain.

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Lived:
1880 - 1963

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Michiko Shoda (Empress Consort of Japan)

Michiko Shoda is the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial family. While her parents were Catholic and she attended Catholic schools, she was not baptized.

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Lived:
1934 - 0 B.C.

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Enid Dickens (Enid Dickens Hawksley)

Monica Enid Dickens, MBE was an English writer and the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. She wrote 13 children’s books.

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Lived:
1915 - 1992

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Era Zistel (Era Zistel Posselt)

Era Posselt (Zistel) was an author and personal friend of George Sylvester Viereck. She has published work in the The Saturday Evening Post. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you coul... View More

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

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