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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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Reisie Lonette

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Type:
Illustrator

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

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Loren Long

Loren Long is an American author and illustrator of five New York Times bestselling picture books for children. His website.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1964 - 0 B.C.

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Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long

Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long (1 November 1885 - 23 December 1952) was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history, and biography. Her total output numbers over 150 volumes with the bulk of he... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1885 - 1952

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Born in Portland, Massachusetts, Longfellow studied at Bowdoin College and taught at Bowdoin and Harvard College. He was the most successful American poet of his day and wrote The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Village Blacksmith as well as a v... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1807 - 1882

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Thomas Morris Longstreth (T. Morris Longstreth)

Thomas Morris Longstreth was an American author. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1886 - 1975

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Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper

Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper was a translator. She and Michael Turner translated the works of Belgian artist Hergé for more than 40 years. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you c... View More

Type:
Translator

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

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Ruth Loomis

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Author

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

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Carlo Lorenzini

Carlo Lorenzini was a real person. He wrote under the pseudonym of Carlo Collodi.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1826 - 1890

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Walter Lorraine

Walter Lorraine is an artist and book designer who has worked with many of the best artists and writers of children’s books. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so,... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator
Editor

Lived:
1929 - 0 B.C.

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Frederick Douglas Losey

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Type:
Editor

Lived:
1866 - 0 B.C.

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Ernst Lothar

Born in Brunn, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Brno in the Czech Republic, as Ernst Lothar Müller, he dropped his surname to make his name more memorable. He was a lawyer, novelist, director, producer and memoirist. He and his ... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1890 - 1974

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Claire Louden

Claire and George Louden traveled the world, studying and photographing foreign lands and cultures, as well as curating exhibitions for United States Embassies abroad. They had a particular appreciation for Japanese items of art and antiquity. We hav... View More

Type:
Illustrator

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

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George Louden, Jr.

George and Claire Louden traveled the world, studying and photographing foreign lands and cultures, as well as curating exhibitions for United States Embassies abroad. They had a particular appreciation for Japanese items of art and antiquity. We hav... View More

Type:
Illustrator

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

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Jane Webb Loudon

Jane Wells Webb Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals.

Type:
Author
Editor

Lived:
1807 - 1858

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Richard H. Love

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Type:
Editor

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

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Delos W. Lovelace

Delos Wheeler Lovelace was a reporter and American novelist. He co-authored three books with his wife Maud Hart Lovelace.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1894 - 1967

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Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace was an American author best known for the Betsy-Tacy series. She was married to fellow author Delos W. Lovelace.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1892 - 1980

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Joseph Low

Joseph Charles Low was an American artist and children’s book illustrator. His book Mice Twice was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1981. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share wit... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1911 - 2007

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David Low

Sir David Alexander Cecil Low was born in New Zealand. He was self-taught and worked as a political cartoonist for many years in Britain. He was best known for his savage cartoons attacking the European fascists.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1891 - 1963

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Michael Lowenbein

A native New Yorker, Michael Lowenbein started painting at age ten, copying the Old Masters. He combined easel painting, chiefly in oils with illustration.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1935 - 2009

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