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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.
Aesop
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.
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Author
Lived:
620 B.C. - 564 B.C.
no first name Pindar (Pindaros)
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Author
Lived:
522 B.C. - 443 B.C.
Council of Nicaea
The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.
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Author
Lived:
325 - 0 B.C.
Chretien de Troyes
Chretien de Troyes was a French poet who is credited with first writing down the Tale of Sir Lancelot.
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Author
Compiler
Lived:
1130 - 1191
Jean Froissart
Born in Hainaut, Jean Froissart was a poet and court historian, best know for his Chronicles of the Hundred Years War.
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Author
Lived:
1337 - 1404
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was the first poet to be buried in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.
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Author
Lived:
1343 - 1400
Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malroy, knight, of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire wrote his version of the Arthurian romances, Le Mort d’Arthur, while in Newgate Prison.
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Author
Lived:
1415 - 1471
William Caxton
William Caxton printed the first book in English at Bruges in 1473. He set up the first printing press in England. It was in the Almonry of the Westminster Abbey Church in London in 1476.
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Author
Editor
Translator
Compiler
Lived:
1422 - 1491
François Villon
While well educated, Villon was quarrelsome and ended up turning to a life of crime.
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Author
Lived:
1431 - 1463
Desiderius Erasmus (Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus)
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
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Author
Lived:
1466 - 1536
John Bourchier (Lord Berners)
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1467 - 1533
Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar.
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Author
Lived:
1484 - 1566
Ch’eng-en Wu
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Author
Lived:
1500 - 1582
James White
John White was an English artist, explorer, cartographer and governor of the English settlement on Roanoke Island in the New World.
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Illustrator
Lived:
1540 - 1593
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer who is highly regarded as perhaps the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists.
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Author
Lived:
1547 - 1616
Edmund Spenser
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Author
Lived:
1553 - 1599
William Shakespeare
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Author
Lived:
1564 - 1616
Gervase Markham
Gervase (or Jervis) Markham was an English poet and writer. He was a voluminous writer on many subjects.
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Author
Lived:
1568 - 1637
Jacobus Revius
Jocubus Revius was a Dutch Calvinist minister, translator, poet and controversialist. His hymns are still part of the Netherlandish hymnal.
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Author
Lived:
1586 - 1658