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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.
Anthony Whitehill (Anthony Reubens Montalba)
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Lived:
1812 - 1884
Anthony R. Montalba (Anthony Reubens Montalba)
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Lived:
1812 - 1884
Carol Della Chiesa (Carolyn M. Della Chiesa)
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Translator
Lived:
1887 - 1972
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
Dorothy Canfield (Dorothy Frances Canfield Fisher)
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Lived:
1879 - 1958
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
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.
Florence Lamborn (Florence Lamborn Johnson)
She translated many of Astrid Lindgren’s books into English. Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, she came to the United States in 1943. She began translating from the Swedish and later became a foreign correspondent, covering the Korean War.
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1913 - 2013
John Bourchier (Lord Berners)
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1467 - 1533
Mary Alice Murray (M.A. Murray)
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Translator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Una Vincenzo Troubridge (Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor)
Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor) was a British sculptor and translator.
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Translator
Lived:
1887 - 1963
Mary Hanford Ford (Mary Hanford Finney Ford)
Mary Hanford Ford was an American lecturer, author, art and literature critic. She was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement.
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Translator
Lived:
1856 - 1937
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang (Mrs. Lang)
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1851 - 1933
Ralph Manheim (Ralph Mannheim)
Ralph Frederick Manheim was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He likened translation to acting, the role being “to impersonate his author.”
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Translator
Lived:
1907 - 1992
Mrs. H. B. Paull (Susannah Mary Paull)
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Translator
Lived:
1812 - 1888
Ed Young (Tse-Chun Young)
Born in Tianjin, China, Ed Young came to America in 1951 to study architecture. He discovered he was more interested in art and began illustrating children’s books in 1962.
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Lived:
1931 - 0 B.C.
William Henry Giles Kingston (William H. G. Kingston)
William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys’ adventure novels.
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1814 - 1880
W. H. D. Rouse (William Henry Denham Rouse)
William Henry Denham was a pioneering British teacher who advocated the use of the Direct Method of teaching Latin and Greek.
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1863 - 1950
W. M. L. Hutchinson (Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson)
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Lived:
1868 - 0 B.C.