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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.
Claude A. Shepperson (Claude Allin Shepperson)
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1867 - 1921
Jacket art (Cover art)
Some books have cover art for which we cannot find the name of the artist.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Lucienne Bloch (Dimitroff Lucienne Bloch)
Lucienne Bloch was a Switzerland-born American artist and photographer.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1909 - 1999
Wag (Dorothy Wagstaff)
This is the pseudonym under which Dorothy Wagstaff published. Her best known work is Stories of Little Brown Koko.
Type:
Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1922 - 2005
Ed Emshwiller (Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer)
Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was an American artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustrations as Emsh but sometimes used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer and others.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1925 - 1990
Elizabeth Shippen Green (Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott)
Elizabeth Shippen Green was an American illustrator. She illustrated children’s books and worked for publications such as Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper’s Magazine.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1871 - 1954
Emma L. Brock (Emma Brock)
Type:
Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1886 - 0 B.C.
Eulalie Minfred Banks (Eulalie)
A British-born illustrator of children’s books, Banks became a naturalized American citizen but spent much of World War II in England. In addition to her book illustration she was a well-known muralist.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1895 - 1999
Adolfo Best-Maugard (Fito Best)
Adolfo Best-Maugard, also found as Best Maugard was a Mexican painter, film director, screenwriter and illustrator.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1891 - 1964
Fred Pegram (Frederick Pegram)
A Britsh artist and illustrator, contemporary of Aubrey Beardsley, he drew many advertisements for Kodak.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1870 - 1937
George du Maurier (George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier)
George du Maurier was a Franco-British author and illustrator. He was the grandfather of the Llewlyn Davies boys, who served as the model for Peter Pan.
Type:
Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1834 - 1896
Jacomb Hood (George Percy Jacomb Hood)
George Percy Jacomb-Hood was an English painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and the Society of Portrait Painters.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1857 - 1929
George Elgood (George Samuel Elgood)
George Samuel Elgood was an English artist and illustrator who became well known for his paintings of formal gardens.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1851 - 1943
Gertrude Duby Blom (Gertrude Elizabeth Lortscher)
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom was a Swiss ethnographer, journalist and photographer. She spent five decades chronicling the Mayan cultures of the Chiapas region of Mexico.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1901 - 1993
Gertrude Howe (Gertrude Herrick Howe)
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1902 - 0 B.C.
Gillian Tyler (Gill Tyler)
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
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
Hablot K. Browne (H. K. Browne)
Hablot Knight Browne (12 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1815 - 1882