Fairy tale authors

Charles Perrault

Born: 12th January 1628, Paris

Death: 16 May 1703

Notable works: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty - Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Diamonds and Toads, Patient Griselda, The Ridiculous Wishes, Donkeyskin...

Grimm Brothers

Born: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm- 4th January 1785, Hanau, Germany

Wilhelm Carl Grimm- February 24, 1786, Hanau, Germany.

Notable Works: The Bremen Town-Musicians, Brother and Sister, Cinderella, The Frog King, Hänsel and Grethel, Little Briar-Rose, Little Red-Cap, Little Snow-White, Mother Holle, Rapunzel, The Seven Ravens, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, Tom Thumb, Sleeping Beauty, The Fisherman & His Wife, The Goose Girl, Hans in Luck, Jorinda and Joringel, Rumpelstilzchen, Snow White, The Brave Little Tailor, The Star Talers, The Elves...

Hans Christian Andersen (Danish author and poet)

Born: April 2, 1805 

Death: August 4, 1875

Notable Works: The Steadfast, Tin Soldier, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes...

Alexander Afanasyev

Born: July 11, 1826, Russia

Death: October 23, 1871

A Rusian folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales

Notable Works: The Animals in the Pit, The Cat, The Rooster, and the Fox, The Wolf and the Goat, The Fox and the Crane, The Swan-Geese, The Three Kingdoms, Prince Ivan and Princess Martha, Baba-Yaga and Puny...

Carlo Lorenzini

Born: November 24, 1826

Death: October 26, 1890

Better known as Carlo Collodi, a Florentine children’s writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Born: 27 January 1832

Death: 14 January 1898

Better known as Lewis Carroll.

Notable Works: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.