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   Lenona to All   
   Jan. 2024: Oldest living writers/illustr   
   01 Jan 24 18:55:48   
   
   From: lenona321@yahoo.com   
      
   Writers for adults (many can be seen at genarians.com):    
      
   1915 Ma Shitu (Chinese politician/novelist)    
      
   1916 Geneviève Callerot (French novelist)    
      
   1921 Hossein Wahid Khorasani (Iranian religious writer), Ray Lawler   
   (Australian playwright), Edgar Morin (French philosopher)    
      
   1922 Bernard Weisberger (American historian), William Leuchtenburg (American   
   historian), Jean Malaurie (French anthropologist/explorer/geogra   
   her/physicist)    
      
   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, Edward Field    
      
   1925 Eugen Gomringer, Madeleine Chapsal    
      
   1926 Jürgen Moltmann, Ruth Minsky Sender, Sami Michael, 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,   
   John Barth, Thomas Sowell, Selma James, Johan Galtung, Kenneth Frampton, Dame   
   Edna O'Brien    
      
   1931: John McPhee, John Norman, Alice Munro, Ivan Klima, Adrienne Kennedy,   
   Charles Taylor, Jerome Rothenberg    
      
   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 Frederick Crews, Nicholas Pileggi, Joan Bakewell, Helen Vendler, 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   
      
      
       
      
   Children's writers/illustrators, mostly from the "Something About the Author"   
   encyclopedias (I've added Marlene Fanta Shyer to 1932 and Arlene Alda to early   
   1933):    
      
   1920    
   Arnold Bare (illustrator: 1944 Caldecott Honoree: Lee Kingman's "Pierre   
   Pidgeon")    
   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)    
   Ruth Gannett (1949 Newbery Honoree: "My Father's Dragon")    
   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)    
   Gene Liberty ("The How and Why Wonder Book of Time")    
   Leonard Everett Fisher (Pulitzer-winning painter & historical writer &   
   illustrator)   
   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)    
   Laurent de Brunhoff (French writer/illustrator: "Babar's Fair")    
   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)    
   Margaret Storey (British fantasy & mystery author: "Timothy & Two Witches,"   
   1966)    
   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)    
       
   1927    
   Mary Chalmers (illustrator: "The Secret Language" by Ursula Nordstrom, 1960)    
   Ruth Lercher Bornstein ("The Summer Everything Changed," 2012)    
   Robert Andrew Parker (painter/illustrator: "Who Was Albert Einstein?" by Jess   
   Brallier, 2002)    
   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)    
   Don Madden (writer/illustrator: "The Wartville Wizard," 1986)    
   Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (2001 Coretta Scott King Honoree: "Virgie Goes to   
   School with Us Boys")    
      
   1928    
      
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