Writers over 100: Francisco Ayala (Spanish novelist &
sociologist), Jacques Barzun (educator & historian), Jeannette Eyerly
(YA "problem novelist"), Momoko I****i, Tullio
Pinelli (Italian playwright & screenwriter), Ellen Tarry ("Pierre
Toussaint: Apostle of Old New York"), & Edward Upward (British
novelist).
Kids' writers and illustrators over 90:
Irving Adler (science writer)
Jules Archer (histories, "The Plot to Seize the White House")
Margaret J. Baker (Carnegie nominee)
Jay Bennett (mysteries, "The Dangling Witness"),
Rhoda Blumberg (Newbery Honor: "Commodore Perry in the Land of the
Shogun")
Gladys Baker Bond ("Trixie Belden" series),
Kristina Brenkova (Slovenian writer & Hans Christian Andersen nominee)
Barbee Carleton ("Mystery of the Witches' Bridge")
Ruth C. Carlsen ("Mr. Pudgins")
Beverly Cleary ("Ramona the Pest"),
Lynn Cook (Canadian YA novelist)
Julia Cunningham ("Dorp Dead"),
I.G. Edmonds ("Ooka the Wise" aka "The Case of the
Marble Monster"),
Virginia Ellison ("Pooh Cook Book"),
Philip Jose Farmer (sci-fi writer)
Seymour Fleishman (illustrator of Jane Thayer's "Gus"
series and Florence Parry Heide's mysteries)
Jane Flory (writer/illustrator, "The Great
Bamboozlement" -1982)
Jean Fritz (histories, "The Double Life of
Pocahontas")
Hans Helweg (Danish illustrator, "The Tales of Olga da
Polga"),
Margaret O. Hyde (multi-science writer),
Dahlov Ipcar (Painter/writer, "The Biggest Fish in the
Sea")
Maria Keil (****tuguese writer)
Carol S. Kendall (Newbery Medal: "The Gammage Cup")
Beth Krush (illustrator of Mary Norton's "The
Borrowers" series)
Joe Krush ("The Borrowers" illustrator)
Michio Mado (Japanese poet, Hans Christian Andersen
Medalist),
Dorothy Marino ("Buzzy Bear" series),
Edith S. McCall (historical nonfiction & fiction:
"Button Family"
series),
Milton Meltzer (histories, "Brother, Can You Spare a
Dime?"),
Sergei Mikhalkov (lyricist - "Let's Fight, and Other
Russian Fables"),
Frank Modell ("New Yorker" and "Sesame Street"
cartoonist)
Lillian Morrison (poet & compiler, "I Scream, You
Scream: A Feast of Food Rhymes")
Adrian Paradis (Vocational guide writer:
"Op****tunities in...." series)
Catherine Owens Peare (historical biographies),
Barbara Leonie Picard (Carnegie nominee & reteller of
"The Odyssey")
Ruth Robbins (illustrator, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
Marc Simont (illustrator, "Nate the Great" & Caldecott
Medalist),
William J. Smith (poet)
Beatrice Sparks (editor/publisher, "Go Ask Alice")
Gobin Stair (artist, "Gulliver's Travels"),
Kaye Starbird (poet, "A Snail's a Failure Socially"),
Dorothy Sterling ("Mary Jane"),
Ann Tompert (folklorist, "The Little Fox Who Went to
the End of the World")
Tasha Tudor (illustrator, "The Secret Garden"),
Kathryn Windham Tucker (ghost storyteller)
Aldren A. Watson (illustrator, "Gulliver's Travels"),
Erika Weihs (Austrian painter/illustrator, "Heidi" -
1946)
Bonnie Bess Worline ("The Children Who Stayed Alone"),
Frances Wosmek (artist/writer, "Twinkle Tot Tales" -
1949)
and Charlotte Zolotow ("William's Doll").
Adult writers around the world (mostly from Benet's
Readers' Encyclopedia):
In their 90s: Samuel Allen, Timothy M Aluko, Robert W Anderson,
Francisco Arrivi, Louis Auchincloss, Eric Bentley, Lilian Jackson
Braun, Margaret Burroughs, Hortense Calisher, Robert Conquest, Maurice
Druon, Richard Erdoes, Martin Gardner, William Gibson, Daniil Granin ,
James Kirkup, Claude Levi-Strauss, Conor Cruise O'Brien, PK Page,
Nicanor Parra, Miss Read, Gonzalo Rojas, Ernesto Sabato, Budd
Schulberg, Khushwant Singh, Joseph Stein, Mary Stewart, Studs Terkel,
and Herman Wouk.
Others born before 1920: Peter H Abrahams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, J.
Frank Kermode, Doris Lessing, Frederik Pohl, J.D. Salinger, &
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn.
Lenona.
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