Notable Authors and Illustrators
- Aesop
- Slave and story teller from Ancient Greece c. 5th century BC.
- Jacob Grimm
- Born January 4, 1785. Died September 20, 1863. 78 years old.
- German philologist, jurist, and mythologist.
- Wilhelm Grimm
- Born February 24, 1786. Died December 16, 1859. 73 years old.
- German author.
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Born April 2, 1805. Died August 4, 1875. 70 years old.
- Danish author and prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems.
- James Halliwell-Phillipps
- Born June 21, 1820. Died January 3, 1889. 68 years old.
- English Shakespearean scholar, and collecter of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Born May 29, 1839. Died January 20, 1921. 81 years old.
- English children's writer as "Mrs. Molesworth" for children too old for nursery rhymes but too young for works like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. Adult works appeared under "Ennis Graham".
- Andrew Lang
- Born March 31, 1844. Died July 20, 1912. 68 years old.
- Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, anthropologist, and folklorist.
- Walter Crane
- Born August 15, 1845. Died March 14, 1915. 69 years old.
- English artist and book illustrator.
- Kate Greenaway
- Born March 17, 1846. Died November 6, 1901. 55 years old.
- English children's book illustrator and writer.
- Randolph Caldecott
- Born March 22, 1846. Died February 12, 1886. 39 years old.
- English artist and illustrator.
- Leonard Leslie Brooke
- Born September 24, 1862. Died 1940. 77-78 years old.
- British artist and writer.
- Joseph Jacobs
- Born August 29, 1854. Died January 30, 1916. 61 years old.
- Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian, and writer.
- Lyman Frank Baum
- Born May 15, 1856. Died May 6, 1919. 62 years old.
- American author, known best for this Oz series, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
- Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet
- Born May 9, 1860. Died June 19, 1937. 77 years old.
- Scottish novelist, known best for Peter Pan.
- Marian Roalfe Cox
- Born 1860. Died 1916. 56 years old.
- Folklorist who pioneered studies in morphology for the fairy tales Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O'Rushes.
- Helen Beatrix Potter
- Born July 28, 1866. Died December 22, 1943. 77 years old.
- English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.