Jan. 2010 update: Oldest living writers and illustrators
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www.genarians.com. I added two illustrators to the top half of this
list - and removed Jane Flory, who died in 2005.
If anyone else should be removed, please let me know.
Over 100: Jacques Barzun (educator & historian), Dana Faralla ("The
Wooden Swallow," 1966) &
Michio Mado (Japanese poet & Hans Christian Andersen Medalist)
Kids' writers and illustrators over 90:
Virginia H. Ellison ("The Pooh Cook Book"),
Catherine Owens Peare (historical biographies),
Edith S. McCall (Ozarks writer of historical fiction & nonfiction:
"Button Family" series),
Gladys Baker Bond ("Trixie Belden" series)
Adrian Paradis (Vocational guide writer: "Opportunities in...."
series)
Dorothy Marino ("Buzzy Bear" series)
Irving Adler (science writer)
Eleanor Means Hull ("In the Time of the Condor," 1961)
Sheilah Beckett (Golden Books illustrator)
Joe Simon (cartoonist, "Captain America")
Margaret Rau ("Holding up the Sky: Young People in China")
Dorothy Grider (Illustrator: Bailey's "The Little Rabbit Who Wanted
Red Wings")
William MacKellar (Scottish mystery writer)
Harriett Mandelay Luger ("Lauren," 1979)
Maria Keil (Portuguese painter/illustrator & HCA nominee)
Joža Horvat (Croatian author and HCA nominee)
Charlotte Zolotow ("Mr. Rabbit & the Lovely Present")
Helen Doss ("The Family Nobody Wanted")
Jean Fritz (histories, "The Double Life of Pocahontas")
Marc Simont (French illustrator, "Nate the Great" & Caldecott
Medalist),
Beverly Cleary ("Ramona the Pest"),
Margaret O. Hyde (multi-science writer),
Aldren A. Watson (painter/woodcut artist, "Gulliver's Travels," 1947)
Barbee Carleton ("Mystery of the Witches' Bridge")
Frank Modell ("New Yorker" and "Sesame Street" cartoonist)
Carol Seeger Kendall (1960 Newbery Medalist: "The Gammage Cup")
Lillian Morrison (poet & compiler, "I Scream, You Scream: A Feast of
Food Rhymes")
Erika Weihs (Austrian painter/illustrator, "Heidi" - 1946)
Dahlov Ipcar (Painter/writer, "The Biggest Fish in the Sea," 1972)
Barbara Leonie Picard (Carnegie nominee & reteller of "The Odyssey")
Rhoda Blumberg (Newbery Honor: "Commodore Perry in the Land of the
Shogun")
Frances Wosmek (artist/writer, "Twinkle Tot Tales" - 1949)
Ruth Robbins (illustrator, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
Ann Tompert (folklorist, "The Little Fox Who Went to the End of the
World")
Beatrice Sparks (editor/publisher, "Go Ask Alice")
Seymour Fleishman (illustrator of Jane Thayer's "Gus" series and
Florence Parry Heide's mysteries)
William Jay Smith (poet, "The Yak")
Lyn Cook (Canadian YA novelist)
Joe Krush ("The Borrowers" illustrator)
Margaret J. Baker (Carnegie nominee, "Castaway Christmas")
Kathryn Tucker Windham (storyteller, "13 Alabama Ghosts & Jeffrey")
Jenny Dalenoord (Dutch illustrator & HCA nominee)
James Aldridge (Australian YA writer)
Marcia Brown (reteller/illustrator: "Stone Soup")
Elisabeth P. Myers (Biographer, "Pearl S. Buck: Literary Girl")
Alice Provensen (Illustrator, Margaret Wise Brown's "The Color
Kittens")
Sara Corrin (British editor, "Stories for Seven-Year-Olds and Other
Young Readers")
Hap Gilliland ("Legends of Chief Bald Eagle" 2005)
Molly L. Cone ("Mishmash" humorous dog series)
Dianne Doubtfire (British novelist, "Girl in Cotton Wool," 1975)
Alton Raible (Illustrator for Zilpha Keatley Snyder)
Helga Sandburg ("Blueberry" 1963 - & daughter of Carl)
David Severn (British author, 1940s "Wily Fox" books)
Daihachi Ohta (Japanese illustrator & HCA nominee)
Eva-Lis Wuorio (Finnish-Canadian writer, ""The Island of Fish in the
Trees" 1962)
Jeanne Bendick (science writer/illustrator, "Galen and the Door to
Medicine," 2003)
Florence Parry Heide ("The Shrinking of Treehorn," 1971)
Paule Cloutier Daveluy (Canadian YA author, "L'Ete enchante," 1958)
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan artist, 1959 Caldecott Honor: "The House
That Jack Built")
Pete Seeger ("Abiyoyo")
Joyce Thorpe Nicholson (Australian writer, "A Mortarboard for
Priscilla," 1963)
Lennart Hellsing (Swedish poet and HCA nominee)
Lynne Gessner (1977 Newbery nominee: "Navajo Slave")
Joe Lasker (painter/writer, "Merry Ever After: The Story of Two
Medieval Weddings," 1976)
Jean Craighead George (1973 Newbery Medalist: "Julie of the Wolves")
Alison Jezard (British writer of "Albert" bear series)
Siny van Iterson (Dutch-Colombian mystery writer and HCA nominee)
Lee Kingman Natti (Horn Book editor and author of "The Peter Pan Bag")
Felice Holman ("Slake's Limbo," 1974)
Adult writers around the world (mostly from Benet's Readers'
Encyclopedia):
In their 90s:
1910 Norman Corwin,
1911 Ernesto Sabato,
1912 Joseph Stein,
1913 Miss Read,
1914 Nicanor Parra, Martin Gardner,
1915 Khushwant Singh, Herman Wouk, Francisco Arrivi,
1916 Eric Bentley, Mary Stewart, P.K. Page, Lilian Jackson Braun,
1917 Robert Conquest, Louis Auchincloss, Margaret Burroughs, Samuel
Allen, Gonzalo Rojas,
1918 Daniil Granin, Timothy M Aluko,
1919 J.D. Salinger, Peter H Abrahams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Doris
Lessing, Belva Plain, Frederik Pohl & J. Frank Kermode.
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