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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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Angie Draper

Angie Draper grew up in Holland, Michigan. She always wanted to be an illustrator of horses. She met Walter Farley at a horse show. He asked her to send him some samples of her work. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person of th... View More

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Illustrator

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Angus Davidson

Angus Davidson was a translator and publisher. He wrote an innovative biography of Edward Lear.

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Editor

Lived:
1898 - 1980

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Anice Page Cooper

Anice Page Cooper was an American author. She mainly wrote as Page Cooper. A prodigious writer, she penned many books for both adults and children, including fiction, non-fiction and biography. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this pers... View More

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Author
Editor

Lived:
1891 - 1958

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Anita M. Smith

Anita Miller Smith was an impressionist and regionalist painter. Her life as an herbalist is reflected in her As True as the Barnacle Tree (1939). We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1893 - 1968

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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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Ann Blades (Ann Sager Blades)

Ann Sager Blades is one of the foremost contemporary illustrators of children's stories. Her A Boy of Taché (1973) was inspired by her experience as a teacher in isolated communities.... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1947 - 0 B.C.

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Ann Rand

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Author

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Ann Scott Moncrieff (Ann Scott-Moncrieff)

Ann Scott-Moncrieff was a Scottish author. She wrote The White Drake and Other Tales.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1914 - 1943

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Ann Strugnell

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Illustrator

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Ann Beneduce

Ann Keay Beneduce began editing children’s books at J.B. Lippincott Co. in 1960. She was an executive at World Publishing, T.Y. Crowell, and William Collins. Then she founded her own imprint, Philomel Books. We have not yet found a reliable yea... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Ann Grifalconi

Ann Grifalconi is an American author and illustrator of children's books. In 1987, her The Village of Round and Square Houses won the prestigious Caldecott Honor.... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1929 - 0 B.C.

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Ann Reit

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Author

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Ann Hark

Ann Amelia Hark was born in Lancaster County. She graduated from the Moravian seminary at nearly fourteen years of age, with the intention of writing poetry. She worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Ladies Home Journal and the Ledger. The she laun... View More

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Author

Lived:
1891 - 1970

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Ann Durell

Ann Durell was born in Belleplain, New Jersey. She graduated Mount Holyoke College in 1952. She was the Editor-in-chief of the Junior Literary Guild from 1960-1962, and the children’s book editor of Holt, Rinehart & Winston from 1962-1969.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1930 - 0 B.C.

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Ann Nolan Clark

Ann Nolan Clark, born Anna Marie Nolan, was an American teacher and writer. She wrote 31 books which took a glance at Native American culture, mostly through the eyes of its children. In 1953, she won the Newbery Medal.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1896 - 1995

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Ann McGovern

Ann McGovern is an American author. She wrote 55 books for children. Reading good books inspired her to start writing. Here is her website: http://www.annmcgovern.com/... View More

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Author

Lived:
1930 - 2015

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Anna Ratzesberger

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Author

Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell was an English novelist. She is best known for Black Beauty, one of the top ten best-selling novels for children ever written.

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Author

Lived:
1820 - 1878

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Anna Cogswell Tyler

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1859 - 1923

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Anna Louise Strong

As a convinced Communist propaganda agent this American Congregationalist was surely one of the most evil women of the twentieth century -- more than merely a “useful idiot.”

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Author

Lived:
1885 - 1970

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