Authors & Illustrators

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.

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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.

Type:
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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Illustrator

Lived:
1870 - 1963

Hans Baumhauer

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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

Nicola Bayley

Nicola Bayley is one of England’s best-loved artists. She has illustrated many acclaimed picture books for children, including “Katje the Windmill Cat” by Gretchen Woelfle. It was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She lives in London.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1949 - 0 B.C.

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.