Authors & Illustrators

Peter Archer

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Author

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

Philip Ardagh

Philip Ardagh is an English children’s author. He has written more than 100 books including adult fiction and children’s non-fiction.

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Author

Lived:
1961 - 0 B.C.

Edward Ardizzone

Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE, RA (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979) was an English artist, writer and illustrator, chiefly of children’s books.

For Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956), which he wrote and illustrated, Ardizzone won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s best children’s book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005) it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1900 - 1979

Aingelda Ardizzone

Aingelda Ardizzone is Edward Ardizzone’s daughter-in-law. She made up the story of The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll when her own children were small.

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Author

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

Neil Ardley

Neil Richard Ardley was a prominent English jazz pianist and composer. He wrote more than 100 popular books on science and technology and music.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1937 - 2004

Ariane

This is a pseudonym for Georges Duplaix.

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Author

Lived:
1895 - 0 B.C.

Joyce Cooper Arkhurst

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Author

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

Leone Arlandson

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

Margaret Armour

Margaret Armour was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator.

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Type:
Translator

Lived:
1860 - 1943

Richard Armour

Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1906 - 1989

Annie E. Armstrong

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Author

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

Anthony Armstrong (George Anthony Armstrong Willis)

Anthony Armstrong was the pseudonym of (George) Anthony Armstrong Willis, an English author of novels, plays, children’s stories and pieces for Punch.

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Author

Lived:
1897 - 1976

Enrico Arno

Enrico Arno was a German artist. He worked for book publishers in Milan and later in Rome. He came to the United States in 1947. He has had a distinguished career as an illustrator of children's books.

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Illustrator

Lived:
1913 - 1980

Matthew Arnold

Son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, Matthew Arnold was a British poet, essayist, critic and atheist.

Type:
Author

Lived:
1822 - 1888

Stanley Massey Arthurs (Stanley M. Arthurs)

Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Stanley M. Arthurs was a student of Howard Pyle and purchased Pyle’s studio after his death in 1911.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1877 - 1950

Boris Artzybasheff

Boris Artzybasheff (25 May 1899 – 16 July 1965) was an American illustrator active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs.

Type:
Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1899 - 1965

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian zoologist, forester and folklorist. He collaborated with Jorgen Engebretsen Moe to write the most comprehensive collection of Norwegian folk tales, Popular Tales from the Norse. The work was largely translated into English by George Webbe Dasent.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1812 - 1885

David Ascoli

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Type:
Translator

Lived:
1917 - 0 B.C.

Daisy Ashford

Margaret Mary Julia (Daisy) Ashford began writing at the age of four, giving dictation to her father. Her most famous novella, The Young Visiters, was published in 1919 with a preface by J.M. Barrie.

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Author

Lived:
1881 - 1972

Isaac Asimov

American polymath, Isaac Asimov was best known as a science fiction and science fact author, but wrote over 500 books on a wide range of topics.

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Author
Editor
Compiler

Lived:
1920 - 1992