Authors & Illustrators

A. A. Avery

A. A. Avery is a pseudonym of Rutherford George Montgomery.

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Author

Lived:
1894 - 1985

Al Avery

Al Avery is a pseudonym of Rutherford George Montgomery.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1894 - 1985

Avi

Avi is the pen name of Edward Irving Wortis. He is an American author of young adult and children’s literature. He won the Newbery Medal. And he won the Newbery Honor twice.

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Author

Lived:
1937 - 0 B.C.

Dora Aydelotte

Dora Aydelotte was an American author. She studied at The Art Institute of Chicago, then wrote historical novels. Much of her material was inspired by the pioneers in Moweaqua, Illinois, and Oklahoma.

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Author

Lived:
1878 - 1968

Jean Young Ayer

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Author

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

Jim Aylesworth

Jim Ayleworth spent twenty-five years as an elementary school teacher. Since 1980 he has published many books for children.

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Author

Lived:
1943 - 0 B.C.

William James Aylward

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a ship builder and owner, Aylward early developed an interest in nautical subjects. He was a student of Howard Pyle and achieved success as an artist and illustrator. He is particularly known for a series of paintings of nautical subjects related to World War I.

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Illustrator
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1875 - 1956

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish lawyer, poet and academic. He is best-known for his humorous verse.

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Author
Translator

Lived:
1813 - 1865

Alice Bach

Alice Bach is a native New Yorker with a degree in medieval studies who is fond of cats whom she tries to teach to stand on their heads, without much success.

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Author

Lived:
1942 - 0 B.C.

H. I. Bacharach (Herman I. Bacharach)

Herman Ilfeld Bacharach was a well-known artist and illustrator and designer. Many of his works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the New Mexico State Library.

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Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1899 - 1976

Irving Bacheller (Addison Irving Bacheller)

Addison Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and writer. He founded the first modern newspaper syndicate, then pursued a full-time career as a fiction writer.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1950

Mary L. Bachmann

Mary Lee Bachmann was a teacher from the Buffalo area of New York.

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Author

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

Monica Backway

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Author

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

Paul Bacon

Paul Bacon was a prolific American designer of book jackets and record album covers. He was a jazz musician who performed on the comb.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1923 - 2015

J. H. Bacon

John Henry Frederick Bacon was a British painter and illustrator of genre works, history and bible scenes, and portraits.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1865 - 1914

Peggy Bacon

Margaret Frances “Peggy” Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1895 - 1987

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association, and founder of the Girl Guides.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1857 - 1941

Barbara Bader

Barbara Bader is the author of American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within. She has written extensively on picture books, folklore, multicultural literature, the history of libraries, and publishing for children. She is well-known in the field of children’s literature. She lives in Connecticut.

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Author

Lived:
1972 - 0 B.C.

Enid Bagnold

Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981), known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1889 - 1981

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children’s author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines, and published volumes of stories for children, methods of story telling and teaching children and other related subjects, which include Boys and Girls of Colonial Days (1917); Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919); Hero Stories (1919); and The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (1945). She wrote For the Children’s Hour (1906). In 1947, her book Miss Hickory won the Newbery Medal.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1875 - 1961