Did you ever want to know more about an author or illustrator? Things like when is their birthday, what other books did they write, how do they write their books? Listed below are the birthdays of many authors and illustrators, as well as links to pages about them.

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January 3		Carolyn Haywood
		Alma Flor Ada
		J. R. R. Tolkien
4		Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
		Jacob Grimm
		Betsy Maestro
		Lynne Cherry
7		Tony Abbott
8		Stephen Manes
9		Clyde Robert Bulla
11		Mary Rodgers
12		Jack London
13		Michael Bond
14		Hugh Lofting
17		Janet Stevens
18		A. A. Milne
		Arthur Ransome
		Raymond Briggs
20		Tedd Arnold
27		Julius Lester
		Lewis Carroll
		Harry Allard
28		Vera Williams
		Ann Jonas
29		Rosemary Wells
		Bill Peet
30		Lloyd Alexander
31		Denise Flemming
		Gerald McDermott

 

February 1		Jerry Spinelli
		Langston Hughes
2		Judith Viorst
3		Joan Lowery Nixon
4		Russell Hoban
5		Patricia Lauber
		David Wiesner
7		Laura Ingalls Wilder
		Charles Dickens
8		Jules Verne
9		Dick Gackenbach
10		E. L. Konigsburg
		Mark Teague
		Stephen Gammell
		E.L. Konigsburg
11		Jane Yolen
12		Judy Blume
13		William Sleator
14		Paul O. Zelinsky
15		Norman Bridwell
17		Robert Newton Peck
		Susan Pfeffer
		Jonathan Allen
19		Louis Slobodkin
21		Jim Aylesworth
23		C. S. Adler
24		Wilhelm Grimm
25		Cynthia Voigt
27		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
28		Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)

 

March 2		Leo Dillon
		Theodor Geisel "Dr. Seuss"
3		Patricia MacLachlan
4		Peggy Rathmann
		Dave Pilkey
5		Mem Fox
		Howard Pyle
6		Thatcher Hurd
8		Peter Roop
9		Kenneth Grahame
10		Jack Kent
11		Ezra Jack Keats
12		Virginia Hamilton
13		Diane Dillon
		Thomas Rockwell
16		Sid Fleischman
17		Wendell P. Minor
20		Lois Lowry
		Mitsumasa Anno
		Fred Rogers
		Louis Sachar
		Ellen Conford
		Bill Martin, Jr.
21		David Wisniewski
22		Randolph Caldecott
		Denys Cazet
23		Eleanor Cameron
24		Bill Cleaver
25		Kate DiCamillo
26		Robert Frost
27		Dick King-Smith
28		Baylor Byrd
30		Anna Sewell

 

April  2		Hans Christian Andersen
		Ruth Heller
		Washington Irving
3		Elizabeth Levy
		Washington Irving
4		Elizabeth Levy
5		Richard Peck
6		Graeme Base
7		Donald Carrick
8		Trina Schart Hyman
9		Joseph Krumgold
10		David A. Adler
		Martin Waddell
12		Beverly Cleary
		Gary Soto
13		Marguerite Henry
16		Gertrude Chandler Warner
19		Jon Agee
20		Mary Hoffman
22		Paula Fox
26		Patricia Reilly Giff
27		Ludwig Bemelmans
		John Burningham
		Barbara Park
28		Lois Duncan

 

May 4		Don Wood
5		Leo Lionni
		Herge (Georges Remi)
		Todd Strasser
6		Judy Delton
		Leo Lionni
		Randall Jarrell
7		Nonny Hogrigian
9		Sir James M. Barrie
		William Pene DuBois
		Eleanor Estes
10		Caroline B. Cooney
		Christopher Paul Curtis
11		Zilpha Keatley Snyder
12		Edward Lear
14		George Seldon
15		Frank L. Baum
16		Bruce Coville
		Betty Miles
17		Gary Paulsen
		Eloise Greenfield
18		Debby Dadey
		Lillian Hoban
		Irene Hunt
20		Mary Pope Osborne
		Donald Carrick
22		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
		Arnold Lobel
23		Margaret Wise Brown
		Scott O'Dell
27		Rachel Carson
29		Willo Davis Roberts
		Andrew Clements
		T. H. White
		Eleanor Coerr
30		Millicent Selsam
31		Jay Williams
		Elizabeth Coatsworth

 

June  2		Paul Galdone
3		Anita Lobel
4		Grahame Base
5		Richard Scarry
6		Cynthia Rylant
		Verna Aardema
		Peter Spier
10		Maurice Sendak
11		Robert Munsch
12		Johanna Spyri
		Anne Frank
14		Laurence Yep
		Bruce Degan
		Peggy Parish
15		Clement C. Moore
		Betty Ren Wright
		Brian Jacques
18		Chris Van Allsburg
		Pat Hutchins
19		Eve Merriam
		John Newbery
21		Robert Kraus
23		Robert Quackenbush
		Theodore Taylor
24		Kathryn Lasky
		Jean Marzollo
25		Eric Carle
		Pearl Buck
		Ruth Krauss
26		Steven Cosgrove Charlotte Zolotow
27		Scott Corbett
28		Natalie Babbitt
		Bette Green
29		Antoine de Saint-Exupery
30		David McPhail

 

July 1		Emily Arnold McCully
2		Jean Craighead George
4		Jamie Gilson
7		Robert I. Heinlein
11		Patricia Polacco
		James Stevenson
		E. B. White
12		Bill Cosby
13		Lynne Reid Banks
14		Laura Numeroff
		Peggy Parrish
15		Clement C. Moore
18		Felicia Bond
19		Eve Merriam
20		Paulette Bourgeois
26		Jan Berenstain
28		Beatrix Potter
		Natalie Babbitt
31		Robert Kimmell Smith
		Lynne Reid Banks
		J. K. Rowling

 

August 2		James Howe
4		Nancy Carlson
5		Maud Petersham
		Ruth Sawyer
6		Frank Asch
		Barbara Cooney
7		Betsy Byars
		Maia Wojciechowska
8		Jan Pienkowski
		Marjorie K. Rawlings
9		Patricia McKissack
11		Joanna Cole
		Don Freeman
12		Ann M. Martin
		Fredrick L. McKissack
		Walter Dean Myers
		Ruth Stiles Gannett
		Deborah Howe
13		Brinton Turkle
16		Matt Christopher
		Beatrice S. DeRegniers
18		Paula Danzinger
25		Lane Smith
27		Suzi Kline
28		Roger Duvoisin
		Allen Say
30		Donald Crews

 

September 1		Jim Arnosky
		Edgar Rice Burroughs
3		Aliki
4		Syd Hoff
5		Paul Fleischman
6		Felix Salten
8		Jack Preletsky
		Jon Scieszka
9		Phyllis Whitney
10		Robert McClung
11		Alfred Slote
13		Roald Dahl
		Else Minarik
		Mildred D. Taylor
14		William H. Armstrong
		Edith Thatcher Hurd
		Elizabeth Winthrop
		John Steptoe
15		Tomi dePaola
		Robert McCloskey
16		H. A. Rey
17		Elizabeth Enright
16		James Haskins
		Taro Yashima
24		Wilson Rawls
25		Shel Silverstein
27		Bernard Waber
		Paul Goble
28		Kate Douglas Wiggin
29		Stan Berenstain
		Edgar D'Aulaire
		Alvin Tresselt

October 1		Louis Untemeyer
3		Natalie Savage Carlson
4		Donold Sobol
		Robert Lawson
5		Louise Fitzhugh
7		Susan Jeffers
		Alice Dalgliesh
8		R. L. Stine
		Faith Ringgold
		Barthe DeClements
		Edward Ormondroyd
9		Joanna Hurwitz
10		Jack London
		James Marshall
11		Russell Freedman
14		Lois Lenski
		Miriam Cohen
16		Edward Ardizzone
19		Ed Emberly
20		Crockett Johnson
21		Audrey Wood
		Ursula LeGuinn
23		Marjorie Flack
		Bruce Brooks
26		Steven Kellogg
27		Constance C. Greene
28		Leonard Kessler
30		Eric Kimmel
31		Cyndy Szekeres
		Katherine Paterson

 

November 7		Armstrong Sperry
9		Lois Ehlert
		Lynn Hall
10		Kate Seredy
11		Seymour Reit
12		Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
13		Robert Louis Stevenson
14		William Steig
		Astrid Lindgren
15		Daniel Pinkwater
16		Jean Fritz
17		Christopher Paolini
20		Marion Dane Bauer
21		Elizabeth George Speare
		Leo Politi
24		Yoshika Uchida
25		Marc Brown
		Crescent Dragonwagon
		P. D. (Philip) Eastman
26		Charles Schultz
27		Kevin Henkes
28		Ed Young
		Tomi Ungerer
29		Louisa May Alcott
		C. S. Lewis
		Madeleine L'Engle
30		Mark Twain (Samuel Clements)
		David Shannon
		Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

December 1		Jan Brett
2		David Macaulay
		Jim Kjelgaard
6		John Reynolds Gardiner
9		Jean Du Brunhoff
10		Mary Norton Cornelia Funke
16		Quentin Blake
18		Marilyn Sachs
19		Eve Bunting
20		Lulu Delacre
22		Jerry Pinkney
23		Avi
25		Eth Clifford
29		Molly Bang
30		Rudyard Kipling
		Mercer Mayer

More Favorites we are looking for birth dates for:

K.A. Applegate
Caroline Arnold
Susan Cooper 
Mary GrandPre
Marcia Thornton Jones 
John Peterson 
Marcus Pfister 
Pam Munoz Ryan 
Sue Alexander

 

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