July 2024: Oldest living writers/illustrators!

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Children's writers/illustrators, mostly from the "Something About the
Author" encyclopedias:

1920
Barthe DeClements ("Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade," 1981)

1921
Alice T. Gilbreath (1970s crafts/nature writer)
Patricia Curtis ("Animals You Never Even Heard Of," 1997)
Belinda Hurmence ("A Girl Called Boy," 1982)
Martha Tolles ("Who's Reading Darci's Diary?" 1984)
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst (reteller of "The Adventures of Spider: West
African Folk Tales" with Jerry Pinkney, 1964)

1922
Jean Bethell ("The Monkey in the Rocket," 1962)
Joan Heilbroner ("Robert, the Rose Horse," 1962)
Mildred Pitts Walter (1987 Coretta Scott King Medalist: "Justin and the
Best Biscuits in the World")
Sonia Gidal (German writer: 1956-1974 "My Village" series)

1923
Pieter van Raven (aka James Edward Duffy, 1990 Scott O'Dell Award winner
for "A Time of Troubles")
John K. Tully (British author of "Starpol" series)
Josep Vallverdú (Catalan poet/novelist/playwright & 1988 Hans Christian
Andersen Award finalist)
William Wise ("Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler," 2004)
Leone Castell Anderson (novelist: "Sean's War," 1998)
Aaron Judah (British author: "God and Mr. Sourpuss," 1960)
Gloria Whelan (National Book Award winner: "Homeless Bird," 2000)

1924
Marian Parry (illustrator: Frederick Winsor's "The Space Child's Mother
Goose," 1956)
Toshiko Kanzawa (aka Toshi Furukawa, Japanese author and HCAA finalist:
2000 & 2006)
Roy A. Gallant (science writer)
Tom J. O'Sullivan (illustrator of "Kidnapped," ed. 1954)
Prudence Andrew (British author of 1960s "Ginger" series)
Elliott Gilbert (illustrator of "The Best-Loved Doll" by Rebecca
Caudill, 1962)

1925
Frank Graham, Jr. (nature/sports writer & Audubon Society editor)
Linda Allen (British writer: "Mrs. Simkin" series, 1979-1996)
Barbara J. Brenner ("If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days"
2000)
Edward Ormondroyd ("David and the Phoenix," 1957)
Wilanne Schneider Belden (1980s fantasy novelist: "Mind-Call" trilogy)
Domenico Volpi (Italian author and HCAA finalist, 1974)

1926
Ina Friedman ("How My Parents Learned to Eat," 1984)
Alain Trez (French cartoonist/illustrator)
Carla Stevens (aka Carla Stevens Bigelow: "Rabbit & Skunk and the Scary
Rock," 1976)
Patricia Coombs ("Dorrie" witch series, 1962-1992)
George Ford (Illustrator & 1973 Coretta Scott King Medalist: "Ray
Charles" by Sharon B. Mathis)
Alfred Slote (aka A. H. Garnet, baseball and sci-fi novelist)
Darwin McBeth Walton ("Kwanzaa: A World of Holidays," 1998)
Miriam Cohen ("Will I Have a Friend?" 1967)
Muriel Batherman ("Before Columbus," 1981)
Hilary Knight (illustrator: Kay Thompson's "Eloise")
Herma Werner (romance/mystery/adventure writer, aka Eve Cowen & Eve
Gladstone, 1978-1994)
Joan Solomon (South African-born British writer: "Everybody's Hair,"
1988)
Harriette Abels (sci-fi/romance/mystery novelist)
Marjorie-Ann Watts (British illustrator of Catherine Storr's "Polly and
the Wolf" series)

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1927
Mary Chalmers (illustrator: "The Secret Language" by Ursula Nordstrom,
1960)
Ruth Lercher Bornstein ("The Summer Everything Changed," 2012)
Ancka Gošnik Godec (Slovene illustrator & 2010 HCAA finalist)
Richard B. Lyttle (artist, reporter, biographer)
Niels Jensen (Danish author: "Days of Courage," 1972)
George Sullivan (sports/biographies/nonfiction writer)
Melvin Berger (author of 200 science/nonfiction books)
Mort Künstler (MAD cartoonist, illustrator, & historical painter)
Margot Webb (German-born writer: "Too Young To Die: The Story of José,"
2003)
Dorothy Levenson (Australian-born writer: "The Magic Carousel," 1967)
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (2001 Coretta Scott King Honoree: "Virgie
Goes to School with Us Boys")

1928
Barbara M. Walker ("The Little House Cookbook," 1979)
Marilyn Gould (Writer on skateboarding and "Golden Daffodils," 1985)
Betty Fraser (Illustrator: Mary Ann Hoberman's "The Llama Who Had No
Pajama")
Lore Segal (Austrian-born writer & translator: Grimm's "The Juniper
Tree," illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
Mary Lystad ("James the Jaguar," 1972)
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson (writer/poet/illustrator: "Turn Not Pale,
Beloved Snail," 1974)
Ellen Viereck (Painter/illustrator, "The Summer I Was Lost" by Paul
Viereck, 1965)
Arnold Dobrin (Writer/illustrator, "Scat!" 1970)
Janice May Udry (1957 Caldecott Medalist: "A Tree is Nice," with Marc
Simont)
Virginia Lee (aka Virginia L. Ewbank, Virginia Ewbank Hendricks, and
Virginia L Hendricks,"The Magic Moth," 1972)
Nan Holcomb (author of elementary stories about handicapped children;
real name, Norma McPhee)
James Lincoln Collier (1975 Newbery Honoree & National Book Award
nominee: "My Brother Sam is Dead")
Jane Gardam (UK writer & Carnegie nominee: "The Hollow Land," 1981)
Eva Hulsmann (French/German/Italian nature illustrator)
Shulamith L. Oppenheim ("The Sea King" with Jane Yolen, 2003)
Esther L. Nelson ("Dancing Games for Children of All Ages," 1973)
Judith Crabtree (Australian fantasy novelist/illustrator: "Song at the
Gate," 1987)
Sidney Offit ("The Adventures of Homer Fink," 1966)
Earle Rice Jr. (YA war history writer)
Toby Talbot ("Dear Greta Garbo," 1977)
Carolee Wells Henney ("The Cat in the Tower," 2017)

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1929
Jules Feiffer (cartoonist: "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster,
1961)
Walter Lorraine (editor/illustrator: "McBroom" series by Sid Fleischman,
1960s-1980s)
Arnold Roth (cartoonist: "Grimms' Fairy Tales," 1966)
Ruth Belov Gross ("If You Grew Up With George Washington," 1982)
Hilde Heyduck-Huth (German writer/illustrator: "The Three Birds," 1966)
Edward Sorel (political cartoonist: "The Pirates of Penzance," adapted
by Ward Botsford, 1981)
Jacqueline L. Harris ("The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War
II," 1996)
Jane Wooster Scott (Illustrator & American folk art painter)
Lensey Namioka (nee Lensey Chao, Chinese-born writer: "Ties That Bind,
Ties That Break," 1999)
Christine San Jose (British-born senior editor of "Highlights" magazine)
Norma J. Livo ("Moon Cakes to Maize: Delicious World Folktales," 1999)
K.M. Peyton (1969 Carnegie Medalist: "The Edge of the Cloud")
Norman L. Macht (Sports biographer)
Peter F. Neumeyer (German-born writer: "The Annotated Charlotte's Web,"
1994)
Wendy Pfeffer ("Let's Read and Find Out" science series)
Sesyle Joslin (1959 Caldecott Honoree: "What Do You Say, Dear?" with
Maurice Sendak)
Aliki Brandenberg (aka Aliki, writer/illustrator: "A Medieval Feast,"
1983)
Elizabeth Hall ("Thunder Rolling in the Mountains," 1992, with Scott
O'Dell)
Dorothy W. Robinson (1975 Coretta Scott King Medalist: "The Legend of
Africania")
Marjorie Ann Waybill ("Chinese Eyes," 1974)
Peter R. Limburg (Science writer of "What's Behind the Word" series)
Lael Littke (YA mystery/romance/horror novelist: "Prom Dress," 1989)
Martha E. Rhynes (Biographer: "Ralph Ellison: Author of Invisible Man,"
2006)

1930:
Eric Houghton (British writer: "Walter's Magic Wand,"1989)
Monica Gunning (Jamaican-born writer: "A Shelter in Our Car," 2004)
Shirley Jordan (history writer: "World War II," 1998)
Barbara Shook Hazen ("The Knight Who Was Afraid of the Dark," 1989)
Ilon Wikland (Swedish illustrator & HCAA finalist, 1998)
Józef Wilkoń (Polish illustrator & HCAA finalist: 1976, 1980, 2000,
2004)
Mary Razzell (Canadian YA novelist: "Snow Apples," 1984)
David Gentleman (British artist of Shakespeare, Keats, & Kipling)
Janice Shefelman (historical writer of "Texas Trilogy," 1980s)
Nancy Polette ("The Thinker's Mother Goose," 1983)
Aranka Siegal (Czech/Hungarian-born writer & 1982 Newbery Honoree: "Upon
the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944")
Helen J. Borten (journalist & illustrator: "Do You See What I See?,"
1959)
Len Lamensdorf (sci-fi novelist: "The Crouching Dragon," 1999)
Louis Sabin (writer on sports/bios/history/nature/mystery)
Don Berliner (1980s writer on aviation)
Gloria Skurzynski (mystery/SF/historical novelist)
Suzanne Tate (Biologist and 1990s writer on marine life)
Necia H. Apfel (Astronomer)
Frank M. Tierney (Canadian poet/writer: 1970s "Silly Sally" series)
Robert Carl Cohen ("The Color of Man," 1968)
Connie Brummel Crook (Canadian historical novelist: "Nellie's Quest,"
1998)
Carl Sommer (Educator: "Another Sommer-Time Story" series, 2000s )
Harriet Sirof (YA writer: "The Real World," 1985)
Caroline Crane (1960s YA writer & 1980s mystery writer)
Tonke Dragt (Dutch SF/fantasy author & HCAA finalist: 2012, 2022)
Edward Frascino ("New Yorker" cartoonist & illustrator of "The Trumpet
of the Swan" by E.B. White)
Mary Blair Immel ("Captured!: A Boy Trapped in the Civil War," 2005)

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1931:
Wick Downing ("The Trials of Kate Hope," 2008)
Ann Elwood ("The Macmillan Book of Fascinating Facts," 1989)
Joy Hakim (historical series author: "A History of US," 1993-2003)
John C. Branfield (UK author & Carnegie nominee: "The Fox in Winter,"
1980)
Judith Viorst ("Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad
Day," 1972)
Dorothy Joan Harris (Canadian writer: "The House Mouse" with Barbara
Cooney, 1973)
Edward Packard ("Choose Your Own Adventure" series, 1979-1998)
Ruth Rocha (Brazilian writer & 2002 HCAA finalist)
Mort Gerberg (cartoonist: Rita Gelman's "More Spaghetti, I Say!" 1977)
Janosch (aka Horst Eckert, German illustrator & HCAA finalist: 1972,
1976, 1978, 1980)
Jacqueline Stem ("The Secret Of The Dragonfly Pin," 2006)
Middy Thomas (artist/writer: Lois Lowry's "Gooney Bird" series)
Constance Levy ("I'm Going to Pet a Worm Today and Other Poems," 1991)
Frances Zweifel (science illustrator: 1990s "Simple Experiments" series)
Griselda Gifford (British historical novelist: "The Story of Ranald,"
1968)
Alexander Traugot (Russian illustrator & 2006 HCAA finalist)
Ellen Blance (British-born co-author of "Monster" series with Ann Cook
and Quentin Blake, 1970s-1980s)
Patricia Calvert ("The Stone Pony," 1982)
Douglas Hall (British illustrator: "The Wind in the Willows," ed. 1986)
Seymour Simon (science writer)
Alexis A. Gilliland (sci-fi novelist/cartoonist: "The Wizenbeak
Trilogy," 1986-1992)
Renée Roth-Hano (French author: "Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied
France," 1988)
Donald Honig (baseball historian & writer for "Alfred Hitchcock
Presents")
Seymour Chwast (graphic designer & co-founder of Push Pin Studio)
James Razzi (writer of Disney and Star Wars activity books)
Maurice Gee (New Zealand fantasy writer)
Barbara Garrison (British-born artist: Jane Yolen's "The Sultan's
Perfect Tree," 1977)
Ada Graham (nature writer)
Shirlee Evans (Baptist writer: "Tree Tall and the Whiteskins," 1985)
Glyn Frewer (British nature novelist)
Malcah Zeldis (artist: "A Fine Fat Pig, and Other Animal Poems" by Mary
Ann Hoberman, 1991)
Ed Emberley (illustrator & 1968 Caldecott Medalist: "Drummer Hoff")
Peter Z. Cohen ("Deadly Game at Stony Creek," 1978)
John Kaufmann (aka David Swift, nature writer/illustrator)
Norma Gaffron ("The Bermuda Triangle: Opposing Viewpoints," 1988)
Nina Beachcroft (British fantasy writer: "Well Met by Witchlight," 1972)
Jan Terlouw (Dutch novelist/scientist/politician: "How to Become King,"
1971)
Bruce Clements (National Book Award finalist: "I Tell a Lie Every So
Often," 1974)
Shuntaro Tanikawa (Japanese poet & HCAA finalist: 2008 & 2010)
David Kherdian (1980 Newbery Honoree: "The Road from Home:The Story of
an Armenian Girl")
Margaret J. Anderson (Scottish-born author: "In the Keep of Time," 1977)
Beverley Randell (aka Beverley Joan Price, New Zealand writer: "The Baby
Owls," 1997)

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1932
Brenda R. Lewis (British nonfiction writer: "The Story of Anne Frank,"
2001)
Marlene Fanta Shyer (Czech-born YA novelist: "Welcome Home, Jellybean,"
1978)
Arielle North Olson ("Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the
World," 1999 - daughter of Sterling North)
Jo Harper ("Prairie Dog Pioneers," 1998)
Irene Bennett Brown (YA novelist: "Before the Lark," 1982)
Adjai Robinson (Sierra Leonean writer: "Singing Tales of Africa," 1974)
Marjorie Stapleton (British writer: "Make Things Gypsies Made," 1974)
Marian Hostetler (Mennonite writer: "African Adventure," 1978)
C.S. Adler ("Good-Bye Pink Pig," 1986)
Josef Palecek (Czech fairy-tale illustrator/filmmaker)
Mary Small (British-born Australian writer: "Tracey McBean & the
Stretching Machine," 1989)
Eileen Deacon (British 1970s crafts writer)
Johanna Reiss (Dutch-born writer & 1973 Newbery Honoree: "The Upstairs
Room")
Angelo Torres (MAD cartoonist)
Debby Slier (South African-born writer: "Hello Kitty" series, 1980s)
Sylvia Sherry (British writer: "Rocky O'Rourke" series, 1969-1992)
Aino Pervik (Estonian author & 2014 HCAA finalist)
Bryna J. Fireside (nonfiction writer: "Is There a Woman in the
House...or Senate?" 2000)
Lorenzo Lynch (illustrator: Arnold Adoff's "Big Sister Tells Me I'm
Black," 1976)
Jill Chaney (British YA novelist: "Mottram Park" series, 1971-1989)
Lois Simmie (Canadian poet: "An Armadillo Is Not a Pillow," 1986)
Joe Servello (illustrator & Caldecott nominee: 1972 & 1973)
Phyllis Green ("Eating Ice Cream With a Werewolf," 1983)
Gwendolyn E. Reed (compiler: "Out of the Ark: An Anthology of Animal
Verse," 1968)
Russell E. Erickson ("A Toad for Tuesday," 1998)
Patricia Malone (fantasy novelist: "The Legend of Lady Ilena," 2003)
Chester Jay Alkema (1970s arts & crafts writer)
Joan Hiatt Harlow ("Star in the Storm," 2000)
Judy Taylor Hough (Welsh writer & Beatrix Potter biographer)
Milton Derr (aka Milton Johnson, painter/illustrator: "The Black Pearl"
by Scott O'Dell, 1967)
Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazilian novelist & 1982 HCAA Medalist)
Myra Paperny (Canadian YA novelist: "The Wooden People," 1976)
Jane Louise Curry ("The Mysterious Shrinking House," 1970)
Gordon Snell (British writer: "The King of Quizzical Island," 2009)
Robert Benton ("Don't Ever Wish for a 7-Foot Bear," 1972)
Ann Thwaite (British biographer of A.A. Milne & Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Pat Lowery Collins ("I Am an Artist," 1992)
Charles Pickard (illustrator: "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London, ed.
1968)
Katherine Paterson (2-time Newbery Medalist & 1998 HCAA Medalist)
Jill D. Duvall (1990s nonfiction writer: "The Mohawk")
Mervyn D. Kaufman ("Thomas Alva Edison: Miracle Maker," 1962)
Mary D. Lankford ("Christmas Around the World," 1998)
Barbara A. Emberley (writer/adapter: "Drummer Hoff," 1967)
Quentin Blake (British illustrator & 2002 HCAA Medalist)
Janine Boissard (French YA novelist: "A Matter of Feeling," 1977)
Richard Kennedy ("Amy's Eyes," 1985)
David Lambert (British science writer, 1960s-1980s)

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1934
Patricia Lee Gauch ("Christina Katerina & the Box," 1971)
Don Bolognese (writer/illustrator: "The Warhorse," 2003)
Cheng-Khee Chee (Chinese painter: "Old Turtle" by Donald Wood, 1991)
Nancy L. Robison (writer of SF, romance, & sports bios)
Patricia J. Thomas ("'Stand Back,' said the Elephant, 'I'm Going to
Sneeze!'" 1971)
Gillian Heal (UK writer/illustrator: "The Halfpennys Find a Home," 1994)
Aida E. Marcuse (Uruguayan writer/translator: "Green Eggs and Ham")
Mary Alice Downie (US-born Canadian writer: "Bright Paddles," 1982)
Shirley Felts (US-born UK painter/illus: "The Light Beyond the Forest"
by Rosemary Sutcliffe, 1979)
Myrna Grant (Canadian author of "Ivan" religious mystery series,
1974-1989)
Esther Allen Peterson ("Frederick's Alligator," 1979)
Steve Gelman (sports writer)
Zibby O'Neal (YA novelist: "The Language of Goldfish," 1980)
Lawrence Di Fiori (writer & Muppets illustrator)
A.B. Curtiss ("The Little Chapel That Stood," 2003)
Els Pelgrom (Dutch author & HCAA finalist: 1992)
Pamela Allen (NZ preschool writer/illustrator)
Lara Rios (Costa Rican author & HCAA finalist: 1992)
Helmi El-Touni (Egyptian painter/illustrator & HCAA finalist: 2004,
2018)
Pierre Coran (Belgian poet/novelist & HCAA finalist: 2000, 2006, 2010)
Joanne Oppenheim ("'Not Now!' Said the Cow," 1989)
Ruskin Bond (Indian-British author & HCAA finalist: 1996, 1998)
Sheila Greenwald (illustrator: "The Little Leftover Witch," by Florence
Laughlin, 1960)
Lynn Sweat (illustrator of "Amelia Bedelia" series)
Norma Johnston (aka Nicole St. John, YA mystery novelist & non-fiction
writer)
Nanette Newman (UK actress/writer: "There's a Bear in the Bath," 1993)
Jim McMullan (writer/illustrator: "I Stink!" 2002)
Anita Lobel (Polish-born illustrator & 1982 Caldecott Honoree: "On
Market Street" by Arnold Lobel)
Brian Ridden (Australian YA novelist: "Whistle Man," 2000)

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Corrections: Tom O'Sullivan (born in 1924) has died, though it's not
clear just when.

And Thé Tjong-Khing (born in 1933) was a HCAA finalist FIVE times. The
last time was this year.

Writers for adults (many can be seen at genarians.com).


1916 Geneviève Callerot (French novelist)

1921 Hossein Wahid Khorasani (Iranian religious writer), Ray Lawler
(Australian playwright), Edgar Morin (French philosopher)

1922 William Leuchtenburg (American historian)

1923 Edward Lueders (American poet/jazz pianist/U. of Utah professor),
Ida Vitale (Uruguayan poet/translator/essayist/critic), Józef Hen
(Polish novelist/playwright/screenwriter)

1924 Richard Rohmer (Canadian aviator/lawyer/historian), Edward Field
(American poet/novelist)

1925 Eugen Gomringer

1926 Ruth Minsky Sender, Rene Depestre

1927: Nayantara Sahgal, Carlos Germán Belli, Willis Barnstone

1928: William Kennedy, Desmond Morris, E.D. Hirsch, Tom Lehrer, Cynthia
Ozick, Michelle Perrot, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Patrick Hemingway, Griselda
Gambaro, Pavel Kohout, Christopher Davis, Noam Chomsky

1929: Peter Dale Scott, Alasdair MacIntyre, Len Deighton, Antonine
Maillet, Harvey Cox, Jurgen Habermas , Arthur Frommer, X.J. Kennedy, Dr.
Robert Coles

1930: Adonis, Jennifer Johnston, Norman Podhoretz, Luce Irigaray, Gary
Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Selma James, Kenneth Frampton, Dame Edna O'Brien

1931: John McPhee, John Norman, Ivan Klima, Adrienne Kennedy, Charles
Taylor

1932: Robert Coover, Gay Talese, Andrew Young, Elena Poniatowska, Paul
R. Ehrlich, Athol Fugard, Tom Robbins, John Searle, Fernando Arrabal,
Alix Kates Shulman, Antonia Fraser, Joanne Greenberg, Dr. Bernie S.
Siegel, Alvin Plantinga, Jacques Roubaud, Edward Hoagland

1933 Nicholas Pileggi, Joan Bakewell, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Claire
Tomalin, M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Cees Nooteboom, Reiner Kunze, Kerstin
Ekman, Michael Frayn, Michael Parenti, Louis Begley, Michael Korda,
Leonard Peikoff, Norman Rush, Gordon S. Wood

1934: Fleur Adcock, Gordon Lish, Paul Ekman, John Dominic Crossan, Ralph
Nader, David Malouf, Gloria Steinem, Jane Goodall, Diane Johnson, Alan
Bennett, Garry Wills, Lady Annabel Goldsmith.

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1933
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1992 Newbery Medalist: “Shiloh”)
Ralph Herrmanns (German author: “Why New York?” 1982)
Barbara B. Murphy (“Ace Hits the Big Time,” 1981)
Mary Frank (British-born artist: “The Enchanted, an Incredible Tale” by
Elizabeth Coatsworth, 1968)
Claire Mowat (Canadian YA author of “The Girl From Away” trilogy, 1990s)
Josephine Poole (British author: “Joan of Arc,” 1998)
Nancy E. Burkert (illustrator: “James & the Giant Peach”)
Mary Blount Christian (“Sebastian: Super Sleuth” series, 1974-1994)
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Lakota writer: “First Americans” series,
1990s)
Malcolm Whyte (preschool nature writer & Cartoon Art Museum founder)
Kathleen Dunne (illustrator of the “Mr. Noisy” series, 1990s)
Walter D. Yoder (painter/writer: “The Big New Mexico Activity Book,”
1993)
Arlene Alda (photographer/writer: "Just Kids from the Bronx," 2015)
Diane Dillon (Illustrator: "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" - &
1996 HCAA finalist)
Thomas Rockwell ("How to Eat Fried Worms," 1973)
Penelope Lively (UK author & 1974 Carnegie Medalist: "The Ghost of
Thomas Kempe")
Annette Macarthur-Onslow (Australian writer/illustrator: "Uhu," 1969)
Eveline Hasler (Swiss novelist & 1988 HCAA finalist)
Sonia O. Lisker (illustrator: "Freckle Juice" by Judy Blume)
Elisabeth Mace (British SF/fantasy writer, 1970s-1980s)
Margery Bernstein ("The Summer Maker: An Ojibway Indian Myth," 1977)
Diana Gregory (YA romance novelist & writer of "There's a Caterpillar in
my Lemonade," 1985)
George B. Schaller (German-born zoologist)
David E. Newton (writer of dozens of science books)
David Cox (Australian writer/illustrator: "Tin Lizzie and Little Nell,"
1982)
Myron Uhlberg ("Dad, Jackie, & Me," 2005)
Arnica Esterl (Dutch reteller of Grimm & Andersen fairytales)
Fibben Hald (Swedish illustrator & HCAA finalist: 1978, 1980, 1994,
2002)
Judy Wolfman ("The Real Life of Red Riding Hood," 1998)
Thé Tjong-Khing (Indonesian-born Dutch illustrator & HCAA finalist:
1972, 1988, 2008, 2018)
Kenneth Longtemps (illustrator: "Greek Myths & Legends," 1967)
Terry Berger ("How Does it Feel When Your Parents Get Divorced," 1977)
Joyce Slayton Mitchell ("Crashed, Smashed, & Mashed: A Trip to Junkyard
Heaven," 2001)
Isaac Millman (French writer/illustrator of recent "Moses" series)
Sharlene Nelson (nonfiction writer: "Jedediah Smith," 2004)
Nancy Whitelaw (YA biographer: "Charles de Gaulle," 1991)
John Lawrence (British painter/illustrator: "His Dark Materials" by
Philip Pullman, ed. 2003)
Michael Allaby (British science writer)
Gerry Contreras (Pratt Institute professor & illustrator: "The Haunted
House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales," ed. Schwarcz & Crume, 1970)
Rita T. Kohn ("Woodland Adventures" series, 1995)
Bernard Lodge (UK designer & Kate Greenaway finalist: "Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Spy," 1976)
Phyllis J. Perry (science writer)
Cyndy Szekeres (writer/illustrator: Marjorie Flack's "Walter the Lazy
Mouse," ed. 1963)
Richard Wormser (nonfiction writer: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,"
1999)
Glennette Tilley Turner ("An Apple for Harriet Tubman," 2006)
Sylvia Louise Engdahl (1971 Newbery Honoree: "Enchantress from the
Stars")
Gloria Montero (Australian-born Spanish writer: "The Summer the Whales
Sang," 1985)