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July 2015: Oldest living writers/illustrators

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Adult writers (mostly from genarians.com):

1912 E.R. Braithwaite (Guyanese author: "To Sir With Love"), Daniel Aaron (American literary historian)
1913 Boris Pahor (Slovene-Italian poet/novelist), Joe Medicine Crow
(tribal historian/anthropologist)
1914 Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (French poet/novelist), Nicanor Parra
(5-time Nobel Prize-nominated Chilean poet & physicist)
1915 Jean Anglade (French novelist), Herman Wouk (American novelist), Grace Lee Boggs (aka Yuk Ping, American writer/activist)

In their 90s:

1915 María Rostworowski

1916 Owen Chadwick, Bernard Lewis, Neagu Djuvara, Eric Bentley

1917 Lise Nørgaard, Robert Conquest, Adolf Burger, Samuel W. Allen, William H. McNeill, Diana Athill

1918 William Jay Smith, Wilbur Lucius Cross III, Henri Vernes, René de
Obaldia

1919 Daniil Granin, Peter H Abrahams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Huston Smith, Michel Déon

1920 Marcos Ana, Benoîte Groult, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Roger Angell

1921 Jules Schelvis, Richard P. Wilbur, Wilson Harris, Marie Ponsot,
Carol Emshwiller, Gabriel Okara, Robert Ferrell, Daniel Berrigan, Ray
Lawler, Edgar Morin, Julia Hartwig, Ilse Aichinger, Sergeanne Golon

1922 Gertrude Himmelfarb, Bernard Weisberger, Bernard Bailyn, Paul
Kuttner, William Leuchtenburg, Raffaele la Capria, Agustina Bessa-Luis,
Angel Wagenstein

1923 John Knoepfle, Edward Lueders, Geoffrey Ashe, Lygia Fagundes Telles,
Fina Garcia Marruz, Carlos Bousoño, Yves Bonnefoy, Nicholas Mosley, Richard Pipes, James Gunn, Morris Halle, Ann Livesay Sutton, Uri Avnery, J.S. Borthwick, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Ida Vitale, Józef Hen, René Girard

1924 Donald Gordon Payne (aka Ian Cameron & James Vance Marshall), Ramón
Xirau, Richard Rohmer, Armand Gatti, John Lukacs, Jin Yong (aka Louis
Cha), Lisel Mueller, Herbert Gold, Mary Warnock, Margit Sandemo,
Marjorie Boulton, Gerda Klein, Claribel Alegría, Edward Field, William
Gass, Rosamunde Pilcher, Guadalupe Rivera Marin, Michel Tournier, Friederike Mayröcker, Marc Ferro, Francisco Nieva

1925 Ernesto Cardenal, Gerald Stern, Etel Adnan, Peggy Poole, M.A.K. Halliday, Rubem Fonseca, John Simon, Nat Hentoff, Jean D'Ormesson, Philippe Jaccottet


Mostly from the "Something About the Author" encyclopedias:

1915
Jean Fritz (historian: "The Double Life of Pocahontas," 1987, & 1986
Hans Christian Andersen Medal nominee)

1916
Beverly Cleary ("Ramona the Pest," 1968, & 1984 HCA nominee)

1917
Barbee Carleton ("Mystery of the Witches' Bridge," 1967)
Frank Modell ("New Yorker" and "Sesame Street" cartoonist)
Dahlov Ipcar (painter/writer: "The Biggest Fish in the Sea," 1972)
Rhoda Blumberg (1986 Newbery Honor: "Commodore Perry in the Land of the
Shogun")

1918
Ann Tompert ("The Little Fox Who Went to the End of the World," 1976)
Lyn Cook (aka Evelyn Waddell, Canadian YA novelist)
Joe Krush (Mary Norton's "The Borrowers" illustrator)
Margaret J. Baker (1963 Carnegie nominee, "Castaway Christmas")
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, 1962-1982)
Alton Raible (illustrator for Zilpha Keatley Snyder)
Fern Brown (horse novelist)
Daihachi Ohta (Japanese illustrator & HCA nominee, 1970, 2002, 2004,
2006)

1919
Paule Cloutier Daveluy (Canadian YA author, "L'Ete Enchante," 1958)
Lennart Hellsing (Swedish poet and HCA nominee, 1994, 2010, 2012)
Lynne Gessner (1977 Newbery nominee: "Navajo Slave")
Joe Lasker (painter/writer: "Merry Ever After: The Story of Two
Medieval Weddings," 1976)
Siny van Iterson (Dutch-Colombian mystery writer and 1972 HCA nominee)
Lee Kingman (aka Lee Kingman Natti: Horn Book editor and author of
"The Peter Pan Bag," 1970)
Felice Holman ("Slake's Limbo," 1974)
Peggy Fortnum (British illustrator of "Paddington Bear")

1920
Hazel Krantz ("100 Pounds of Popcorn," 1961)
Edna Anita Miller (writer/illustrator, "Mousekin" series, 1964-1992)
Richard Adams (1972 Carnegie Medalist: "Watership Down")
Jean Kenward (British writer: "Ragdolly Anna" series)
Arnold Bare (illustrator: 1944 Caldecott Honor: Lee Kingman's "Pierre
Pidgeon")
Milton Dank (biographer: "Albert Einstein" 1983)
Barthe DeClements ("Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade," 1981)
Margaret Paice (Australian writer/illustrator)

1921
Jan Slepian ("The Alfred Summer," 1980)
Olga Cossi ("The Magic Box," 1990)
Patricia Robins (aka Claire Lorrimer, British writer: "Sea Magic," 1946)
Al Jaffee (MAD cartoonist)
Dorothy M. Martin (Protestant "Peggy" mystery series, 1957-1976)
Arabelle Wheatley (nature illustrator)
Alice T. Gilbreath (1970s crafts/nature writer)
Ruth McCrea (illustrator: "Japanese Fairy Tales" 1958)
Lois Lamplugh (British novelist: "Sean's Leap," 1979)
Jean Darby (nature writer)
Helen Challand (science writer)
Alicia Morel (Chilean poet & 2000 HCA nominee)
Belinda Hurmence ("A Girl Called Boy," 1982)
Lee Roddy (writer of Protestant mystery/adventure)
Martha Tolles ("Who's Reading Darci's Diary?" 1984)
Stella Pevsner (YA novelist: "And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine" 1978)
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst (reteller of "The Adventures of Spider: West
African Folk Tales" with Jerry Pinkney, 1964)
Leonard Kessler (writer/illustrator of "Mr. Pine" series, 1965-2001)
Brent Ashabranner (Peace Corps, histories, biographies, sociology)

1922
Jean Bethell ("The Monkey in the Rocket," 1962)
Joan Heilbroner ("Robert, the Rose Horse," 1962)
Art Shay (non-fiction photographer: "What Happens" series)
Mimi Korach (illustrator: Donald Hall's "String Too Short to be Saved,"
1960)
Clare Romano Ross (painter/illustrator: "Longfellow's Poems")
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)
Hans Peterson (Swedish author of "Magnus" series; 1976 HCA nominee)
Francisco Marins (Brazilian writer & HCA nominee: 1976 & 1978)
Judith Spearing ("Ghosts Who Went to School," 1966)
Barbara Brooks Wallace ("Peppermints in the Parlor," 1980)
Stan Lee ("Spider-Man")
Jane Langton (author of "The Diamond in the Window," 1962, & murder
mysteries)

1923
Rosemary Harris (1968 Carnegie Medalist: "The Moon in the Cloud")
Helen R. Caswell (Episcopal writer/illustrator: "God Must Like to Laugh,"
1987)
Paul Sagsoorian (illustrator of Jay Williams' "Danny Dunn" sci-fi series)
Gloria Kamen (writer/illustrator: "Edward Lear, King of Nonsense," 1990)
Paula Fox (1974 Newbery Medalist: "The Slave Dancer" & 1978 HCA Medalist)
Pieter van Raven (aka James Edward Duffy, 1990 Scott O'Dell Award winner
for "A Time of Troubles")
Louise Meriwether ("Daddy Was a Numbers Runner," 1970)
Chester Aaron (YA novelist: "Gideon," 1982)
Judith Kerr (German-British novelist: "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,"
1971)
Joseph Schindelman (illustrator: "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory")
John K. Tully (British author of "Starpol" series)
Josep Vallverdú (Catalan poet/novelist/playwright & 1988 HCA nominee)
Ashley Bryan (Artist: 2-time Coretta Scott King Medalist & 2006 HCA nominee)
Mari Evans (poet: "Singing Black!" 1974)
William Wise ("Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler," 2004)
Rosamond V.P. Kaufman (adapter: "UNICEF Book of Children's Legends," 1970)
Leone C. Anderson (novelist: "Sean's War," 1998)
Ruth Gannett (1949 Newbery Honor: "My Father's Dragon")
Emma Smith (1973 Carnegie nominee: "No Way of Telling")
Mort Walker (cartoonist: "Beetle Bailey")
Michael Grater (British artist: "Cut and Fold an English Village")
Rosemary Anne Sisson (British screenwriter: "The Wind in the Willows,"
1983)
Iona Opie (British folklorist & editor, "I Saw Esau," 1992)
Nicholas Fisk (British sci-fi writer, "Starstormer Saga")
Aaron Judah (British author: "God and Mr. Sourpuss," 1960)
Gloria Whelan (National Book Award: "Homeless Bird," 2000)
Lyuben Zidarov (Bulgarian illustrator & HCA nominee: 1974 & 1978)

1924
Sally Watson (historical novelist: "The Wayward Princess," 2006)
Marian Parr (illustrator: Frederick Winsor's "The Space Child's Mother
Goose," 1956)
Toshiko Kanzawa (aka Toshi Furukawa, Japanese author and HCA nominee:
2000 & 2006)
Doris Faber (author of biographies & history)
Robert Shore (painter/illustrator: "The Jungle Books," ed. 1964)
Virginia Mueller (author of "Monster" preschool series, 1986-1991)
Byrd Baylor (poet & author of "Amigo," 1963, with Garth Williams, &
4-time Caldecott Honor winner)
Roy A. Gallant (science writer)
Andrei Keleinikov (Russian nature illustrator)
Clive King (British writer: "Stig of the Dump," 1963)
Lili Cassell Wronker (German artist: "The Rainbow Mother Goose" by
May Lamberton Becker, 1947)
Brad Anderson (cartoonist: "Marmaduke")
Prudence Andrew (British author of 1960s "Ginger" series)
Gene Liberty ("The How and Why Wonder Book of Time")
Leonard Everett Fisher (Pulitzer-winning painter & historical writer
& illustrator)
Warren J. Halliburton ("Africa Today" series, 1990s)
Anatoly Aleksin (Russian poet/playwright: "My Brother Plays the
Clarinet")
Bernadine Cook ("The Little Fish That Got Away" with Crockett Johnson,
1956)
Jolly Roger Bradfield ("Pickle-Chiffon Pie," 1967)
Constance C. Greene ("A Girl Called Al," 1969)
Eva Deutsch Costabel (Croatian painter/writer: "The Jews of New
Amsterdam," 1988)
Louise Moeri (YA novelist: "Save Queen of Sheba," 1981)
Marthe Seguin-Fontes (French writer/illustrator: "I Went Into My
Garden" series, 1979)
Jack Davis (MAD cartoonist)
James Berry (Jamaican poet & O.B.E.)
Kirsi Kunnas (Finnish poet & 2014 HCA nominee)


1925
Emily Hearn (Canadian preschool writer of "Franny" series, 1980s)
Miep Diekmann (Dutch novelist & 1990 HCA nominee)
Mary Serfozo (preschool writer: "Who Said Red?" 1988)
Clare Gault (preschool writer: "Norman" sports series, 1970s)
Taylor Oughton (nature artist: Hal Borland's "The Dog That Came to Stay: A Memoir" 1962)
Frank Graham, Jr. (nature/sports writer & Audubon Society editor)
Andre Amstutz (British illustrator of 31 Allan Ahlberg books)
Bernice Myers (writer/illustrator: "Not THIS Bear!" 1968)
Dorothy Butler (New Zealand writer: "My Brown Bear Barney" 1989)
Jan Truss (British-Canadian writer: "Jasmin" 1982)
Ruth K. Kirk (geography writer)
Linda Allen (British writer: "Mrs. Simkin" series, 1980s-1990s)
Harry Mazer ("I Love You, Stupid" 1981)
Phillip Viereck ("Terror on the Mountain" 1965)
Janet D'Amato (crafts writer/illustrator)
Arthur Polonsky (painter/illustrator: "Lincoln: A Big Man" by Helen Kay, 1958
Barbara J. Brenner ("If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days" 2000)



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