Authors & Illustrators

David A. Adler

David Abraham Adler is an American writer of nearly 200 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the “Picture Book of ...” series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers.

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Author

Lived:
1947 - 0 B.C.

Arnold Adoff

Arnold Adoff is an American children's writer and anthologist. He has published more than 30 books.

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Author

Lived:
1935 - 0 B.C.

Mary Adshead

Mary Adshead was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer. Working with her husband, she illustrated two children’s books.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1904 - 1995

Aesop

Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.

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Author

Lived:
620 B.C. - 564 B.C.

Miriam Agatha (Agatha le Breton)

Miriam Agatha was a pseudonym used by the Australian Catholic author Agatha Magdalen le Breton. She taught in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in Queensland, and used most of her spare time writing short stories and, later, a children's novel.

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Author

Lived:
1886 - 1970

William C. Agee

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Author

Lived:
1936 - 0 B.C.

Georgette Agnew

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Author

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

Jessica Ahlberg

Jessica Ahlberg is an author and children's book illustrator. She is the daughter of author Allan Ahlberg and illustrator Janet Ahlberg.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1978 - 0 B.C.

Allan Ahlberg

Allan Ahlberg was born in England in 1938. He was adopted into a family in Oldbury in the West Midlands.

As a child he loved to read. He finished school at age seventeen. After a series of jobs, culminating in grave-digging, he became an elementary school teacher when he was twenty-two.

He met his first wife, the artist Janet Hall at a teacher training college. Their first book, The Brick Street Boys was published in 1975.

Janet and Allan had one daughter, Jessica, who is also an illustrator.

He has written more than 140 books many with other illustrators, including his daugher Jessica.

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Author

Lived:
1938 - 0 B.C.

Janet Ahlberg

Janet Hall Ahlberg was born in 1944. Her parents were both artists. She met Allan Ahlberg at a teachers training college and they were married in 1969.

Janet illustrated over fifty books. For Each Peach Pear Plum, she was awarded the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association, winning again in 1991 for The Jolly Christmas Postman.

Janet and Allan had one daughter, Jessica, who is also an illustrator. Janet died in 1994.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1944 - 1994

Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken MBE was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken, her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken.

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Author

Lived:
1924 - 2004

Conrad Potter Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography.

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Author

Lived:
1889 - 1973

Anne Ainscough

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Illustrator

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

Gabriel Alborozo

Alborozo is an illustrator who lives in London. He also worked as a background artist and propmaker. His website.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1972 - 0 B.C.

John Alcorn

John Alcorn was an American commercial artist and designer, and an illustrator of children’s books. He created numerous book jackets and paperback covers, and his work appeared in many major exhibits.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1935 - 1992

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys.

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age.

She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard.

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Author

Lived:
1832 - 1888

May Alcott (Abigail May Alcott Nieriker)

Abigail May Alcott Nieriker was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1840 - 1879

Brian Alderson

Brian Alderson is a British author, editor, translator, critic and historian of children’s books.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1930 - 0 B.C.

Cecil Aldin

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1870 - 1935

Francis Aldor

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Author
Editor
Compiler

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