Twentieth-century children's writers

Chevalier, Tracy. (Added Author). Kirkpatrick, D. L. (Added Author).

Summary: Contains biographies on over 800 of the most important children's writers of our era.

Item details

ISBN: 0912289953
ISBN: 9780912289953
Physical Description: print
xxi, 1288 pages ; 29 cm.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press, 1989.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xii-xv) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

H.A. and Margret Rey -- Alice Hegan Rice -- Frank Richards -- Laura E. Richards -- Antonia Ridge -- E.V. Rieu -- Charles G.D. Roberts -- Keith Robertson -- Joan G. Robinson -- Mary Rodgers -- James Roose-Evans -- Michael Rosen -- Diana Ross -- Dick Roughsey -- Glen Rounds -- Philip Rush -- Marilyn Sachs -- Andrew Salkey -- Julia Sauer -- Malcolm Saville -- Ruth Sawyer -- Richard Scarry -- Jack Schaefer -- Ann Schlee -- Miriam Schelin -- Bill Scott -- Jenny Seed -- Catherine Sefton -- George Selden -- Maurice Sendak -- Kate Sereddy -- Ian Serraillier -- Ernest Thompson Seton -- Dr. Seuss -- David Severn -- Helen Sewell -- Monica Shannon -- Marjorie Weinman Sharmat -- Margery Sharp -- Norren Shelley -- Sylvia Sherry -- Louisa R. Shorwell -- Shel Silverstein -- Issac Bashevis Singer -- Barbara Sleigh -- Louis Slobodkin -- Esphyr Slobodkina -- C. Fox Smith -- Dodie Smith -- Emma Smith -- Vian Smith -- William Jay Smith -- Barbara Claassen Smicker -- Caroline Dale Snedeker -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Donald J. Sobol -- Barbara Softly -- Virginia Sorensen -- Ivan Southall -- Elizabeth George Speare -- Eleanor Spence -- Armstrong Sperry -- E.C. Spykman -- Mary Q. Steele -- William O. Steele -- William Steig -- John Steptoe -- A.C. Stewart -- Mary Stolz -- Phil Stong -- Margaret Storey -- Catherine Storr -- Herbert Strang -- Joyce Stranger -- Noel Streatfeild -- L.A.G. Strong -- Elizabeth Stucley -- Rosie Sudbery -- Donald Suddaby -- Rosemary Sutcliff -- Efua Sutherland -- Eve Sutton -- Ronald Syme -- John Symonds -- Geraldine Symons -- Ethel Talbot -- Joan Tate -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Sydney Taylor -- Theodore Taylor -- Albert Payson Terhume -- Colin Thiele -- James Thurber -- Ann Thawaite -- Eve Titus -- Barbara Euphan Todd -- H.E. Todd -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Ruth Tomalin -- Mary Tourtel -- John Rowe Townsend -- Katharine Tozer -- P.L. Travers -- Mary Treadgold -- Geoffrey Trease -- Henry Treece -- Alvin Tresselt -- Meriol Trevor -- Jan Truss -- John R. Tunis -- Brinton Turkle -- Ethel Turner -- Philip Turner -- Yoshiko Uchida -- Tomi Ungerer -- Bertha Upton -- Alison Uttley -- Hilda Waber -- Jan Wahl -- David Walker -- Stuart Walker -- Dorothy Wall -- D.J. Watkins-Pitchford -- Clyde Watson -- Jenifer Wayne -- Jean Webster -- Rosemary Weir -- Ronald Welch -- Rosemary Wells -- Barbara Wersba -- Joyce West -- Robert Westall -- Percy Westerman -- E.B. White -- Eliza Orne White -- T.H. White -- Phyllis A. Whitney -- Leonard Wibberley -- Ester Wier -- Kate Douglas Wiggin -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Barbara Willard -- Nancy Willard -- Jay Williams -- Henry Williamson -- Barbara Ker Wilson -- Gina Wilson -- Maia Wojciechowska -- David Wood -- Kerry Wood.