Authors & Illustrators

A. Y. D.

This may have been Anne Yeomans Doxley. She was a friend and contemporary of Randolph Caldecott’s wife.

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Author

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

Verna Aardema

Verna Norberg Aardema Vugteveen, best known by the name Verna Aardema, was an American writer of children's books. Her book Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears won the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1976.

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Author

Lived:
1911 - 2000

Salomon and Joseph Abbey (S. or J. Abbey)

Salomon van Abbé and Joseph van Abbé were two brothers who signed their work Abbey. The dates given are for Salomon who also used the name C. Morse. He was born in Amsterdam and was an artist, etcher and illustrator of books and magazines.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1883 - 1955

Elenore Plaisted Abbott

Born in Lincoln, Maine, Elenore Plaisted Abbott studied under Howard Pyle. She was one of the many illustrators of books and magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Illustrator
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1875 - 1935

Donald Abbott

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Illustrator

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

Moreton Abbott

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Author

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

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott was an American author of children’s books, best known for his ‘Rollo’ and ‘Franconia’ series of stories.

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Author

Lived:
1803 - 1879

Harriette Sheffer Abels

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Author

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

Kathleen Adams

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Editor
Compiler

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

Sherred Willcox Adams

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and member of the Adams political family. He descended from two U.S. Presidents. His posthumously published memoir, The Education of Henry Adams, won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Author

Lived:
1838 - 1918

Andy Adams

American author Andy Adams lived as a real cowboy and gold miner. Then he wrote seven books.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1935

Charles Marshall Adams

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1907 - 1990

Adrienne Adams

Adrienne Adams was a children’s book illustrator as well as an artist and author of children’s books. She won the Caldecott Honor twice.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1906 - 2002

Richard Adams

Richard George Adams was an English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down. He studied modern history at the university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterward he completed his studies and then joined the British Civil Service. Two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author.

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Author

Lived:
1920 - 2016

George Adamson

Born in the Bronx George Worsley Adamson studied in England and spent his career there as a cartoonist and illustrator.

Type:
Illustrator

Lived:
1913 - 2005

Doris Adelberg (Doris Orgel)

Doris Adelberg was born in Vienna, Austria. She married Shelley Orgel. She currently lives in New York City and is a full-time children’s author.

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Author

Lived:
1929 - 0 B.C.

Janeen R. Adil

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Author
Editor

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

Elmer Adler

Elmer Adler founded Pynson Printers in New York, producing exacting high-end work. He also founded The Colophon, a quarterly journal for book collectors.

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Type:
Editor

Lived:
1884 - 1962

Irving Adler

Irving Adler was an author, mathematician, scientist, political activist and educator. He was the author of 57 books (some under the pen name Robert Irving) about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children and adults.

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Author

Lived:
1913 - 2012