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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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Ludwig Grimm

Ludwig Emil Grimm was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver. His brothers were the well-known folklorists, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1790 - 1863

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Abel Bowen

Abel Bowen was an early 19th century wood engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1790 - 1850

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Joseph Mohr

Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer. He wrote the words to the Christmas carol Silent Night.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1792 - 1848

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Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat)

Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for t... View More

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Author

Lived:
1792 - 1848

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William Hamilton Maxwell

William Hamilton Maxwell was an Irish novelist. He started the school of rollicking military fiction.

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Author

Lived:
1792 - 1850

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George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank was a British caricaturist and book illustrator. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens and many other authors reached an international audience.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1792 - 1878

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Clarkson Stanfield

Clarkson Frederick Stansfield was a marine and landscape painter. He broadened the public’s perceptions of fine art.

 

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1793 - 1867

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Edgar Taylor

Edgar Taylor was a British solicitor and author of legal, historical, literary works and translations. He helped translate the Brothers Grimm into English. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you co... View More

Type:
Translator

Lived:
1793 - 1839

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Peter Parley

Samuel Griswold Goodrich was an American author, better known under the pseudonym of Peter Parley.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1793 - 1860

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Samuel Griswold Goodrich

An exceedingly prolific author of chiefly didactic books for children under his pseudonym of Peter Parley. He was frustrated by an English author, George Mogridge, who published similar works under the same name.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1793 - 1860

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Charles Paul de Kock

Charles Paul de Kock was a French banker who became the chronicler of lower and middle class Paris during the restoration in over one hundred novels. His works have been descrived as ‘rather vulgar but not immoral.'

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Author

Lived:
1793 - 1871

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David Jardine

David Jardine was an English barrister and magistrate. He was known as a historical and legal writer. He helped translate Grimms' Fairy Tales into English. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you co... View More

Type:
Translator

Lived:
1794 - 1860

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Gustav Nieritz

Karl Gustav Nieritz was a German children’s author. He highlighted virtues such as diligence, fear of God, and sense of family.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1795 - 1876

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George Catlin

George Catlin was an American painter, author, and traveler. He specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1796 - 1872

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James R. Planché (James Robinson Planché)

James Robinson Planché was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. He wrote, adapted, or collaborated on 176 plays.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1796 - 1880

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William Hickling Prescott

Born in Salem and educated at Harvard, Willima Hickling Prescott became the premier historian of Spain and the Spanish conquest of the new world for English speaking readers. His Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru have been reprinted many times ... View More

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Author

Lived:
1796 - 1859

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Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch was a blue blooded Boston banker who wrote a popular series based on European myths and legends.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1796 - 1867

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Robert Seymour (Nemo)

Robert Seymour was a British artist and illustrator, now remembered for his inspiration of Dickens’ Pickwick Papers.... View More

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1798 - 1836

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James Edward Austen-Leigh (J. E. Austen-Leigh)

Nephew of Jane Austen who wrote a memoir of her life based on recollections of her surviving relatives.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1798 - 1874

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Duncan Forbes

Born in Kinnard, Perthshire, Duncan Forbes was illiterate until the age of thirteen. He went on to earn advanced degrees and became Professor of Oriental Languages at King’s College, London. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this p... View More

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Author
Editor
Translator
Compiler

Lived:
1798 - 1868

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