Authors & Illustrators
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.
Dorothy Walker Baruch
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Author
Lived:
1899 - 1962
Mildred Leona Batchelder
Mildred Leona Batchelder was a long-time executive with the American Library Association. An annual award for the best-translated book for children is named for her.
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Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1901 - 1998
Julie Forsyth Batchelor
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Joan Mary Bate
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
H. M. Bateman
Born in Australia, Henry Mayo Bateman was a British humorous artist and cartoonist.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1887 - 1970
Helen Dixon Bates
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE, better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer and author.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1905 - 1974
Aurelius Battaglia
Aurelius Battaglia was an American illustrator, muralist, writer, and director. He was also a prolific children’s book illustrator.
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Author
Lived:
1910 - 1984
John D. Batten
John Dickson Batten was an English painter of figures, as well as a book illustrator and printmaker. In the 1890s, he illustrated a series of fairy tale collections edited by Joseph Jacobs.
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1860 - 1932
Caroline Feller Bauer
Caroline Feller Bauer was a librarian, educator, and champion of children’s literature. She attended the Brearley School in New York City and received her BA from the University of Colorado. She received her PhD from the University of Oregon. She was known for her years of presentations that demonstrated how to bring children and books together.
Type:
Editor
Lived:
1935 - 2013
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Bettina Ehrlich, née Bauer, was an Austrian painter and illustrator of children’s books, many of which she also wrote. She lived briefly in Berlin and Paris, and from 1938 in England.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1903 - 1985
L. Frank Baum
Lyman “L.” Frank Baum was an American author of children’s books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Author
Lived:
1856 - 1919
Lewis Baumer
Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer was an English caricaturist who worked for more than fifty years for the British magazine Punch.
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1870 - 1963
Hans Baumhauer
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Jane E. Bayer
Jane Bayer was a library worker, project worker, and author. She was posthumously awarded the Susan B. Anthony Award for outstanding service to women by the Vermont YWCA.
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 1985
Frederick William Naylor Bayley (F. W. N. Bayley)
Frederick William Naylor Bayley was an English miscellaneous writer. He was the first editor of the Illustrated London News.
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Editor
Lived:
1808 - 1853
Dorothy Bayley
Dorothy Bayley was born in New York city and spent her childhood there. She attended Connecticut College for Women, majoring in fine arts. She graduated with an A. B. degree. Then she studied at the New York-Phoenix School of Design, under Norman Rockwell and Thomas Fogarty.
As soon as Bayley left design school, she started freelance illustrating. She illustrated over seventy children’s books for a number of different publishers.
She married Harry D. Morse, who was also an illustrator. Some of her books are attributed to her married name of Dorothy Bayley Morse.
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Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 1979
Frances Courtenay Baylor (Frances Courtenay Baylor Barnum)
The daughter of an army officer, Frances Courtenay Baylor was born at Fort Smith Arkansas and lived for a time in England. Her family was from Virginia and she spent the latter part of her life there.
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Author
Lived:
1848 - 1920
Stephen Fielding Bayne
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Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.