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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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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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Frederick William Naylor Bayley (F. W. N. Bayley)

Frederick William Naylor Bayley was an English miscellaneous writer. He was the first editor of the Illustrated London News. 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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Editor

Lived:
1808 - 1853

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Frances Elizabeth Atchinson (Frances Atchinson Bacon)

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Lived:
1903 - 1982

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Ogden Nash (Frederic Ogden Nash)

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his “droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country&rsquo... View More

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Lived:
1902 - 1971

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F. J. Harvey Darton (Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton)

F. J. Harvey Darton was the scion of a long line of British publishers. He wrote, among others, several retellings of traditional English romances. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could shar... View More

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Author
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Lived:
1878 - 1936

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G. P. Griggs (George Philip Griggs)

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Editor

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

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Greville MacDonald (Greville MacDonald, M.D.)

Greville MacDonald was a notable ear, nose and throat doctor. He wrote on subjects ranging from medicine to ethical issues to fairy tales.

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Author
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Lived:
1856 - 1944

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Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr. (H.C. Murphy)

Born in Brooklyn, New York, H.C. Murphy switched from electrical engineering to art in college. He published in the pulps as well as some of the more upscale magazines such as Field and Stream.

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Illustrator
Editor

Lived:
1886 - 1931

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Harvey Thomas Dunn (H.T. Dunn)

Born in Manchester, South Dakota, Harvey Dunn studied with Howard Pyle. He was greatly influenced by his experience as a combat artist with the AEF in World War I. He had a long career in illustration and was especially influential as a teacher.... View More

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Illustrator
Editor
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Lived:
1884 - 1952

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Charles James L'Estrange (Herbert Strang)

A staff member of the Oxford University Press, he wrote under the names of Herbert Strang and Mrs. Herbert Strang, in collaboration with George Herbert Ely. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you c... View More

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Author
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Lived:
1867 - 1947

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Hildegarde Hawthorne (Hildegarde Hawthorne Oskison)

Hildegarde Hawthorne wrote 23 books ranging from biographies to travel narratives.

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Lived:
1871 - 1952

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James Edward Austen-Leigh (J. E. Austen-Leigh)

Nephew of Jane Austen who wrote a memoir of her life based on recollections of her surviving relatives.

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Lived:
1798 - 1874

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James H. Fassett (James Hiram Fassett)

James Hiram Fassett was an American author and school superintendent. 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

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Author
Editor
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Lived:
1869 - 1930

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James Orchard Halliwell (James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips)

James Orchard Halliwell was a British Shakespearian scholar, folklore collector, and all-around literary expert. He may have stolen a quarto Hamlet from his wife's father, prior to eloping with her. Which the father regretted the most is uncertain, b... View More

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Author
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Lived:
1820 - 1889

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Jane Werner Watson (Jane Watson)

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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Author
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Lived:
1915 - 2004

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Jennie D. Lindquist (Jennie Dorothea Lindquist)

An American of Swedish ancestry Jennie Lindquist was a librarian, author and editor at The Hornbook. She received Newbery Honors for her book “The Golden Name Day” in 1956.... View More

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1899 - 1977

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John Graves (John Tiarks Ranke)

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Editor

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

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Richard Findlater (Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain)

Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain was British theatre critic and biographer. He wrote under the pen-name Richard Findlater. Himself the author of a biography of Joseph Grimaldi, Richard Findlater edited the original autobiographical work that was rewritte... View More

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1921 - 1985

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Constance Strachey (Lady Constance Strachey, Constance Braham, Baroness Strachey)

Constance Strachey was the wife of 1st Baron Strachie, a daughter of Charles Bampfylde Braham, and a niece of Frances, Countess Waldegrave. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with u... View More

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Author
Editor
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Lived:
1856 - 1936

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