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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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Miriam Clark Potter

Miriam Clark Potter was born in Minneapolis. She graduated from the University of Minnesota. Sold story to Youth’s Companion at age 14. Married Zenas Potter a newspaper man. After living in Mexico and France and India, she settled in Carmel, Ca... View More

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1886 - 1965

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Mary A. Potter

Mary E. Potter was the supervisor of mathematics for the Racine, Wisconsin school district. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth or 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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Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Henri Pourrat

Henri Pourrat was a prolific French writer who championed the back to the land movement. He made a monumental collection of folk tales from the Auvergne.

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Lived:
1887 - 1959

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Fern Powell

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

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Pamela Powell

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

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Rhoda Power

Rhoda Dolores le Poer Power was a pioneer broadcaster and children’s writer. Her highly regarded historical novel “Redcap Runs Away” (1952) tells of a runaway minstrel boy in the Middle Ages. We have not yet found a reliable photogr... View More

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Author

Lived:
1890 - 1957

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Tom Powers

Tom Powers was an American actor in theatre, films, radio and television, as well as a screenwriter and author.

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Author

Lived:
1890 - 1955

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Alfred Powers

Alfred J. Powers is Oregon’s most distinguished literary historian. For a detailed biography see the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission.

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Author

Lived:
1887 - 1983

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Lillian Delger Powers

Lillian Delger Powers was an expert on squirrels. 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

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Author
Translator

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

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Alice Day Pratt

Alice Day Pratt was a teacher and author and a homesteader. She was a vegetarian and lover of animals. On her ranch, she kept dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and cows. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any informat... View More

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Author

Lived:
1872 - 1963

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Margaret Pratt

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Author

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

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George Preedy

George R. Preedy is a pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long.

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Author

Lived:
1885 - 1952

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Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children’s poetry. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Carolynn. His website: http://jackprelutsky.com/... View More

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Author

Lived:
1940 - 0 B.C.

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Elizabeth Prentiss

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss was an American author, well known for her hymn More Love to Thee, O Christ.

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Author

Lived:
1818 - 1878

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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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May Wilson Preston

Mary (May) Wilson Watkins Preston was an American illustrator of books and magazines and an impressionist painter. She studied at the Art Students League, and in Paris and finally at the New York School of Art. She became a successful illustrator for... View More

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Illustrator

Lived:
1873 - 1949

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Edna Mitchell Preston

Edna Mitchell Preston was a teacher, editor, and author of books for young people. Her Pop Corn and Ma Goodness was chosen as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1970. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any inf... View More

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Author

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

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Garret Price

Garrett Price was born in Kansas in 1896 and studied at the University of Wyoming and the Art Institute of Chicago. He continued his studies in France and became an illustrator for The New Yorker in the 1930s.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1896 - 1979

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Christine Price

Born in England, Christine Hilda Price was an author and illustrator of children’s books. She wrote and illustrated a series of books on art.

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Author
Illustrator
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1928 - 1980

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Hilda Cummings Price

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Author
Translator

Lived:
1928 - 1980

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