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.
Evelyn Ames (Evelyn Perkins)
Evelyn Ames was poet, novelist and nature enthusiast.
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Author
Lived:
1909 - 1990
Sir Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was “the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century.” He was the father of British novelist Martin Amis.
In 2008, The Times ranked Kingsley Amis ninth on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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Author
Lived:
1922 - 1995
Vera A. Amrein
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
André Amstutz
André Amstutz was educated at the Brighton School of Art and began his career in animation. He has illustrated many children’s books.
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Author
Illustrator
Lived:
1925 - 0 B.C.
And others
Some books involved so many people that we can’t list them all. So we say “And others …”
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Author
Illustrator
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Translator
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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen, often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen, was a Danish author and poet.
Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales.
Andersen’s popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or “fairy-tales”—express themes that transcend age and nationality.
Andersen’s fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West’s collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well.
They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1914)
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Author
Lived:
1805 - 1875
Joy Anderson
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Marilyn D. Anderson
Marilyn D. Anderson taught instrumental and vocal music for 17 years. Then she published 18 children's books. She also wrote plays for children as well as magazine articles about writing for children.
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Author
Lived:
1943 - 0 B.C.
Doug Anderson
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Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
William T. Anderson
William Anderson is an American author, historian and lecturer. He is a specialist in the subject of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her times.
His interest in the American frontier began after reading “Little House on the Prairie.” He is a director of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri, and he lives and works as a teacher in Michigan.
Here is his website: http://williamandersonbooks.com
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Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1952 - 0 B.C.
Robert Gordon Anderson
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Author
Lived:
1881 - 1950
Alexander Anderson
Dr. Alexander Anderson was an American physician and a wood engraver working in New York in the early nineteenth century. He was termed "America's First Illustrator."
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Lived:
1775 - 1870
Dan Andreasen
Dan Andreasen is a New York Times bestselling illustrator who has created artwork for more than fifty picture books.
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Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
J. Mace Andress
James Mace Andress
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Author
Lived:
1881 - 1942
F. Emerson Andrews
F. Emrson Andrews was an author, publisher and staff member of several charitable foundations.
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Author
Lived:
1902 - 1978
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through China into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia.
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Author
Lived:
1884 - 1960
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews was an American writer. She is best known for a widely-read short story about US President Abraham Lincoln.
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Author
Lived:
1860 - 1936
Siri Andrews
Siri Alma Andrews
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Translator
Lived:
1894 - 1973
Raymond Andrieux
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Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Marie Angel
Marie Angel was an English author and illustrator. She established herself as one of the best animal artists of her day.
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Illustrator
Lived:
1924 - 2010