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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.
Samuel Foote
Samuel Foote was a British mimic, satirist, playwright and actor.
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Author
Lived:
1720 - 1777
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield.
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Author
Lived:
1728 - 1774
Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland. He collected and republished ballads.
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Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1729 - 1811
William Cowper
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1731 - 1800
James Boswell
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer and diarist. His surname has passed into the English language as a term for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print.
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Author
Lived:
1740 - 1795
Edward Cunningham
Edward Francis Cunningham lived in the United Kingdom. He is known for painting.
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Author
Lived:
1742 - 1795
Johann David Wyss
Type:
Author
Lived:
1743 - 1818
Thomas Day
An English eccentric, bordering on a fool. He raised a young woman to be his ideal wife and was not happy in the marriage.
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Author
Lived:
1748 - 1789
Emanuel Schikaneder
Emanuel (Johann Joseph) Schikeneder was a German actor-manager who built the Theater and der Wien and is best known as the librettist for W.A. Mozart’s Magic Flute.
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Author
Lived:
1751 - 1812
Isabelle de Montolieu
Isabelle de Montolieu was a Swiss novelist and translator. She wrote in and translated to the French language. She penned a few original novels and over 100 volumes of translations.
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Author
Translator
Lived:
1751 - 1832
Joseph Ritson
Joseph Ritson was an English antiquary. He is most well known for his 1795 compilation of the Robin Hood legend.
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Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1752 - 1803
Frances Burney
Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright.
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Author
Lived:
1752 - 1840
Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick was an English engraver and natural history author. He illustrated children’s books.
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Illustrator
Lived:
1753 - 1828
George Crabbe
George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1754 - 1832
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet and artist, and the author of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1757 - 1827
Robert Burns
Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.
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Author
Lived:
1759 - 1796
Mary Lamb
Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb on the collection Tales from Shakespeare.
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Author
Lived:
1764 - 1847