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.
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.
Type:
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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Type:
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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Type:
Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 1985
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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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
0 B.C. - 1979
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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Type:
Editor
Lived:
1808 - 1853
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.
Type:
Author
Lived:
1848 - 1920
Stephen Fielding Bayne
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Type:
Author
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.
Pauline Baynes
Pauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex.
A website devoted to her art is at: http://paulinebaynes.com/?
Type:
Author
Illustrator
Editor
Compiler
Lived:
1922 - 2008
Nina Beachcroft
Nina Beachcroft is an English writer, who specialises in children’s fantasy novels. Her first novel, Well Met By Witchlight, was published in the UK in 1972. She has written nine children’s novels.
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Type:
Author
Lived:
1931 - 0 B.C.
Dan Beard (Uncle Dan)
Daniel Carter Beard, also called Uncle Dan, was an American illustrator, author, and outdoor enthusiast. He was a pioneer of the youth scouting movement in the United States.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1850 - 1941
James Carter Beard
James Carter Beard was an American illustrator, and the brother of Daniel C. Beard. He read for the law as a youth, but found success as an illustrator.
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1837 - 1913
Susan Beard
Susan Beard is a literary and commercial translator. She is also a broadcast journalist for Swedish radio. She has worked for a variety of clients including Volvo and Eriksson.
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Type:
Translator
Lived:
1949 - 0 B.C.
Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings were in black ink. He died of tuberculosis when he was 25 years old.
Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1872 - 1898
John Yocum Beaty
John Yocum Beaty was an American author and editor.
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Type:
Author
Lived:
1884 - 0 B.C.
Frank Beaudouin
Frank Beaudouin lived in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey. He is known for marine-ship portraits.
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Type:
Illustrator
Lived:
1885 - 0 B.C.
W. G. Bebbington
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Type:
Author
Lived:
0 B.C. - 0 B.C.