Authors & Illustrators

Valenti Angelo

Valenti Angelo was an Italian-American printmaker, illustrator and author. He illustrated roughly 250 books. In 1939, he won the Newbery Honor for Nino.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1897 - 1982

Joan Walsh Anglund

Joan Walsh Anglund is the author and illustrator of more than 120 books that have sold over 50 million copies around the world in 17 languages. For more than 50 years Joan has been writing and illustrating wonderful children’s and inspirational books and has produced Dolls, Collector Plates Figurines, Clothing, Greeting cards, Tea Sets, Glassware and a host of other products to numerous to mention here. Joan has recently started her new company J.W.A. Inc. She is working on several new products for this next year. Read about them in the News section or in the Store. She continues to write and illustrate her beautiful books and has just finished her next inspirational book published by Andrews McMeel Publishing called “Faith is a Flower”

Famous Fans of J.W.A. - Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, Cary Grant, Jackie (Kennedy) Onassis, Ethel Kennedy and Children, Carol Burnett, Helen Hayes, Phyllis Diller, Julie Andrews, Margaret Whiting, Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Clooney, Shirley Jones, Emperor of Japan, Elizabeth Taylor Etc.

Foreign Countries Published - England, Germany, Japan, China, Sweden, Iran, Africa, Israel, Venezuela, Columbia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Spain, France, and The Netherlands.

She has her own website: http://www.joanwalshanglund.com/

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1926 - 0 B.C.

Douglas R. Angus

Douglas R. Angus was a Canadian professor of English, specializing in modern poetry, short stories and fiction. He was also an author of four novels.

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Author

Lived:
1909 - 2002

Cora Annett (Cora Annett Pepitone Scott)

Cora Annett (Pepitone) Scott has written several books for children, including The Dog Who Thought He Was a Boy.

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Author

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

Mitsuo Anno

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Author

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

Bianzhu Anno

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Author

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

Mitsumasa Anno

Mitsumasa Anno was born on March 20, 1926. He is a Japanese illustrator of children’s books, best known for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his “lasting contribution to children’s literature.”

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Author
Illustrator
Editor

Lived:
1926 - 2020

Masaichiro Anno

Masaichiro Anno is the son of Mitsumasa Anno and Midori.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1926 - 0 B.C.

Anonymous

Some books do not identify the people who created it. Maybe it was a secret. So we call that “anonymous.”

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Author
Illustrator
Editor
Translator

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

Ernst Anshutz

An organist and composer in Leipzig, Ernst Anshutz in 1824 wrote the modern lyrics to O, Tannenbaum, which was adopted as a Christmas carol and translated into English as O, Christmas Tree, O, Christmas Tree.

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Author

Lived:
1780 - 1861

F. Anstey

F. Anstey was the pseudonym under which the English novelist Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 - 10 March 1934) wrote his comic novels .

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Author

Lived:
1856 - 1934

Edward Anthony

Edward Anthony was a newsman and magazine publisher. He co-wrote Bring ’em Back Alive and Wild Cargo with Frank Buck.

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Author

Lived:
1895 - 1971

Andrew Varick Stout Anthony (A. V. S. Anthony)

Andrew Varick Stout Anthony was an American wood engraver. One of his best-known works is Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1878).

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1835 - 1906

Herbert Antoine

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Author
Translator

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

Margaret Fishback Antolini

Margaret Fishback Antolini was the married name of Margaret Fishback.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1900 - 1985

David Appel

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Author

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

Victor Appleton

Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.

Some of the Victor Appleton books were written by Howard R. Garis.

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Author

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

Deborah Apy

Deborah Apy Kohen has worked as a greeting card copywriter and has edited and written children’s books.

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Author

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

May Hill Arbuthnot

May Hill Arbuthnot was an educator, editor, writer, and critic who devoted her career to the awareness and importance of children’s literature

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Author

Lived:
1884 - 1969

Helen Arbuthnot

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Author

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