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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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Anne Clifford

Lady Anne Clifford was a patron of literature and a literary personage in her own right. She was also the High Sheriff of Westmorland.

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Lived:
1590 - 1676

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William Bradford

William Bradford was an English Separatist. He emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and served as Governor of the Plymouth Colony.

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Lived:
1590 - 1657

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Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He wrote over 2,500 poems.

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Lived:
1591 - 1674

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Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton was an English writer. He is best known as the author of The Compleat Angler.

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Lived:
1593 - 1683

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John Milton

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

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Lived:
1608 - 1674

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Authorized Version

The Authorized Version (AV), also known as the King James Version (KJV) and as the King James Bible (KJB), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. The books of the King James Ver... View More

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Lived:
1611 - 0 B.C.

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Sir Roger L'Estrange

Sir Roger L'Estrange was an English pamphleteer, author and defender of Royalist claims. His master work was Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692).

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Lived:
1616 - 1704

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Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely-read poet. He is known above all for his Fables.... View More

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Lived:
1621 - 1695

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Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. Th... View More

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Lived:
1628 - 1703

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan was a tinkerer by trade. But following a prolonged spiritual and emotional crisis, he turned to preaching and religious writing. His most famous work, Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegorical account of a Christian’s spiritual jo... View More

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Lived:
1628 - 1688

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Michael Wigglesworth

Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) was a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England.

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Lived:
1631 - 1705

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys FRS was an administrator of the navy of England and a Member of Parliament. He is most famous for the diary that he kept while a young man.

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Lived:
1633 - 1703

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Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy (Baroness d’Aulnoy, Countess d’Aulnoy, Marie Catherine comtess d’Aulnoy)

Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d’Aulnoy, also known as Countess d’Aulnoy, was a French writer known for her fairy tales. When she termed her works contes de fées (fairy tales), she originated the term that is now ... View More

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Lived:
1650 - 1705

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as ... View More

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Lived:
1660 - 1731

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. He is remember... View More

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Lived:
1667 - 1745

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Constantine Joseph Beschi

Father Constantine Joseph Beschi was an Italian Jesuit missionary to south India.

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Lived:
1680 - 1747

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Robert Samber

Robert Samber was a British writer and translator. He was the English translator of the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please co... View More

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Translator

Lived:
1682 - 1745

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father of the United States, and a leading author.

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Lived:
1706 - 1790

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Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding was an English author and translator. Her novels were among the earliest in the English language, and the first to examine the interior lives of women and children. She was a sister of Henry Fielding.

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Lived:
1710 - 1768

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote the story titled Beauty and the Beast. She had a relationship with the spy for the British Thomas Pichon (1757–1760).

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Lived:
1711 - 1780

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