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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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J. Harris Gable

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.

Type:
Translator

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

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LouAnn Gaeddert

LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert is an author who has written cookbooks, children’s books and romance novels. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1931 - 0 B.C.

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Walter Gaffney-Kessell

Walter Gaffney-Kessell Walter is an American Freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer, and Art Director. He works in watercolor, pen, and gouache. We have not yet found a reliable year of birth of this person. Do you have any information you could sha... View More

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Illustrator

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

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Flavia Gág

Flavia Gág was an American author, artist, writer and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. She was a sister of Wanda Gag.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1907 - 1978

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Howard Gág

Howard was the brother of Wanda Gág. He did the hand lettering for most of her picture books. 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 u... View More

Type:
Illustrator

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

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Wanda Gág

Wanda Hazel Gág was an American artist, author, translator and illustrator. She is most noted for writing and illustrating the children’s book Millions of Cats, which won a Newbery Honor Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It is the oldes... View More

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Author
Illustrator
Editor
Translator

Lived:
1893 - 1946

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E. R. Gaggin (Eva Roe Gaggin)

Eva Roe Gaggin was an American author of several children’s books. She is most famous for Down Ryton Water. It was a Newbery Honor Book in 1942. We have not yet found a reliable photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could s... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1879 - 1966

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Marzieh Gail

Marzieh Gail was a Persian-American. She graduated with honors from Stanford University and then from Berkeley. She became the first female reporter in Tehran. She taught the Bahá’í faith and translated its key texts.... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1908 - 1993

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Paul Galdone

Paul Galdone (June 2, 1907 - November 7, 1986) was an illustrator and writer known best for children’s picture books. He was born in Budapest and he emigrated to the United States in 1921. He studied art at the Art Student’s League and Ne... View More

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1907 - 1986

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Elizabeth Gale

Elizabeth Gale was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. She spent much of her childhood on the very farm to which her great-grandmother came from Holland. She is well versed in the traditions of New Amsterdam. We have not yet found a reliable year of birt... View More

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Author

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

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Leah Gale

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Author

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

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Kathryn Gallant

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Author

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

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Aldo Galli

Born in Lombardy, Italy, Aldo Galli started out in agronomy, but switched to painting in 2001 and now works as an illustrator.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1966 - 0 B.C.

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Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, ... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1897 - 1976

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J. Galloway

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Author

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

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Louise Galloway

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Type:
Editor
Compiler

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

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Thomas Franklin Galt

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Author

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

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William Gamble

William Gamble edited The Penrose Annual from 1895 to 1933. 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:
Editor

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

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Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 8, 1923) is the author of the My Father’s Dragon series as well as other short children’s novels. She wrote the first novel, My Father’s Dragon after her graduation from Vassar College in 1944, ... View More

Type:
Author

Lived:
1923 - 1924

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Ruth Chrisman Gannett

Ruth Chrisman Gannett was born in California. She illustrated many famous children’s books, chiefly with lithographs.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1896 - 1979

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