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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.
Mary Howitt
Type:
Author
Lived:
1799 - 1888
Thomas Webster (Thomas George Webster)
Thomas George Webster was a British genre painter and illustrator.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1800 - 1886
Catherine Sinclair
Type:
Author
Lived:
1800 - 1864
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London, and one of the most prolific taxonomists in the history of zoology.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1800 - 1875
George Cattermole
George Cattermole was an English painter and illustrator, chiefly in watercolors. He was a friend of Charles Dickens.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1800 - 1868
F. Stone
Frank Stone was a was an English painter and actor and illustrator. He was a close friend of Charles Dickens.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1800 - 1859
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Type:
Author
Lived:
1800 - 1859
Mrs. Fairstar
Mrs. Fairstar is a pseudonym for Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (December 31, 1802 – March 13, 1884), an English poet and critic most famous for his poem Orion.
Type:
Author
Editor
Lived:
1802 - 1884
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1802 - 1885
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1802 - 1838
Richard H. Horne (Richard Hengist Horne, Richard Henry Hengist Horne)
Richard Hengist Horne, born Richard Henry Hengist Horne, was a real person. He often wrote under the pseudonym of Mrs. Fairstar.
Type:
Author
Editor
Lived:
1802 - 1884
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1802 - 1870
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1802 - 1876
Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals — particularly horses, dogs, and stags.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1802 - 1873
Henry Courtney Selous
Henry Courtney Selous was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer. He wrote children’s books under the pseudonyms of “Kay Spen” and “Auntie Kay.”
Type:
Author
Lived:
1803 - 1890
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a prolific nineteenth century American essayist, was best know as leader of the transcendentalist movement, defined by his aunt as “a strange mixture of atheism and false independence.”
Type:
Author
Lived:
1803 - 1882
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (Edward Bulwer Lytton)
Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1803 - 1873
Jacob Abbott
Jacob Abbott was an American author of children’s books, best known for his ‘Rollo’ and ‘Franconia’ series of stories.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1803 - 1879