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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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John Porrit Wetherell

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Lived:
1780 - 1834

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Ernst Anshutz

An organist and composer in Leipzig, Ernst Anshutz in 1824 wrote the modern lyrics to O, Tannenbaum, which was adopted as a Christmas carol and translated into English as O, Christmas Tree, O, Christmas Tree.

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Author

Lived:
1780 - 1861

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Mary Godolphin

Mary Godolphin is a pseudonym of Lucy Aikin, an English historical writer. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1781 - 1864

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Johann Rudolf Wyss

Johann Rudolf Wyss was the son of Johann David Wyss and edited his manuscript of The Swiss Family Robinson.... View More

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Editor

Lived:
1781 - 1830

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Ann Taylor

Ann Taylor is an English poet and children’s author. She was the elder sister of fellow poet Jane Taylor.

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Author

Lived:
1782 - 1866

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Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor Gilbert and her sister Ann contributed most of the poems in Rhymes for the Nursery which included Jane’s “The Star,” now known as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”... View More

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Author

Lived:
1783 - 1824

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book... View More

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Author

Lived:
1783 - 1859

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Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. He introduced Keats, Shelley, Browning and Tennyson to the public.

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Author

Lived:
1784 - 1859

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Jacob Grimm

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. His brother was Wilhelm Grimm. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law (linguistics), the author (with his brother) of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the... View More

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Author

Lived:
1785 - 1863

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John James Audubon

John James Audubon (born Jean Rabin) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He identified 25 new bird species.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1785 - 1851

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Nathaniel Dearborn

Nathaniel Dearborn was a was a wood engraver in Boston. He apprenticed under Abel Bowen. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1786 - 1852

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Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle was a Suquamish and Duwamish chief, and a leading figure among his people. The city of Seattle is named after him. A book called Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (1991) represents a widely publicized speech of his arguing in favor of ecol... View More

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Author

Lived:
1786 - 1866

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Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author. His elder brother was Jacob Grimm. Together, they wrote as the Brothers Grimm.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1786 - 1859

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Franz Xaver Gruber

Franz Xaver Gruber was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer. He lived in the village of Arnsdorf. He is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night).... View More

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Author

Lived:
1787 - 1863

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James de Carle Sowerby

James De Carle Sowerby was a British mineralogist, botanist, and illustrator. His education was in chemistry.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1787 - 1871

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Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham)

Richard Harris Barham was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby and as the author of The Ingoldsby Legends.

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Author

Lived:
1788 - 1845

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Lord George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron’s ... View More

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Lived:
1788 - 1824

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Michael Scott

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Author

Lived:
1789 - 1835

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century.

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Author

Lived:
1789 - 1851

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John Payne Collier

John Payne Collier was an English author and journalist and Shakespearean critic.

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Author

Lived:
1789 - 1883

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