The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
Editor: Zipes, Jack
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-19-968982-8
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Image Count:
62
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Covers writers, illustrators, works, characters, countries, and related topics such as film, television, art, the oral tradition, advertising, feminism, and much more.
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Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- A
- Aarne, Antti
- Aarne–Thompson index
- Achebe, Chinua (1930–2013)
- Ada, Alma Flor (1938–)
- Adams, Richard (1920–2016)
- Addy, Sidney (1848–1933)
- Adventures of Pinocchio
- advertising and fairy tales
- Afanasyev, Aleksandr (1826–71)
- Aiken, Joan (1924–2004)
- Ainsworth, Ruth (1908–84)
- Aladdin
- Alcott, Louisa May (1832–88)
- Alexander, Lloyd (1924–2007)
- Ali Baba
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (film versions)
- Alice in Wonderland (1865)
- Alice in Wonderland (film versions)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Álvarez González, Blanca (1957–)
- Alverdes, Paul (1897–1979)
- Andersen, Hans Christian (1805–75)
- Andersson, Christina (1936–)
- Anstey, F. (pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856–1934)
- aphorisms and fairy tales
- Apollinaire, Guillaume (pseudonym of Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880–1918)
- approaches to the literary fairy tale
- Apuleius, Lucius (125–?)
- Arabian Nights, The (also known as The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: alf laila wa-laila))
- Ardizzone, Edward (1900–79)
- Arène, Paul (1843–96)
- Armando (Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd, 1929–)
- Arndt, Ernst Moritz (1769–1860)
- Arnim, Achim von (1781–1831)
- Arnim, Bettina von (née Brentano, 1785–1859)
- Arnim, Gisela von (1827–89)
- Arpino, Giovanni (1927–87)
- Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen (1812–85) and Moe, Jørgen (1813–82)
- ‘Aschenputtel’
- Ashton, Sir Frederic (1904–88)
- Attwell, Mabel Lucie (1879–1964)
- Atwood, Margaret (1939–)
- Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne d’ (or comtesse) (1650/51–1705)
- Auneuil, Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d’ (d. 1700?)
- Austin, Keith
- Avery, Frederick Bean (Fred Avery, Tex Avery) (1908–80) American animator, cartoonist, and director,
- Awa, Naoko (1943-93)
- Aymé, Marcel (1902–67)
- B
- Bába Yagá
- Babbitt, Natalie (1932–2016)
- Bail, Murray (1941–)
- Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet Bain, 1854–1909)
- Bakshi, Ralph (1938–)
- Balanchine, George (original name Giorgi Balanchivadze, 1904–83)
- Balázs, Béla (pseudonym of Herbert Bauer, 1884–1949)
- Baldini, Antonio (1889–1962)
- ballet and fairy tales
- Baluschek, Hans (1870–1935)
- Banville, Théodore de (1823–91)
- ‘Barbe-bleue’
- Bardin, Garri (1941–)
- Baret, Paul (1728–95)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834–1924)
- Baroja, Pío (1872–1956)
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860–1937)
- Barta, Jiří (1948–)
- Barth, John (1930–)
- Bartók, Béla (1881–1945)
- Basile, Giambattista (1575–1632)
- Bassewitz, Gerdt von (1878–1923)
- Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank Baum, 1856–1919)
- Bausch, Pina (1940–2009)
- Bayley, Frederick W. N. (1808–53)
- Bayley, Nicola (1949–)
- Beagle, Peter S. (1939–)
- Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de
- ‘Beauty and the Beast’
- Beauty and the Beast
- Bechstein, Ludwig (1801–60)
- Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo (1836–70)
- Belasco, David (1853–1931)
- ‘Belle au bois dormant, La’
- Benavente, Jacinto (1866–1954)
- Bergstrom, Erik (1981–)
- Berman, Steve (1949–)
- Bernard, Catherine (1663–1712?)
- Berner, Rotraut Susanne (1948–)
- Bernheimer, Kate (1967–)
- Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierres de (1715–94)
- Bertall (pseudonym of Charles Albert d'Arnoux, 1820–93)
- Beskow, Elsa (1874–1953)
- Bettelheim, Bruno (1903–90)
- Bewick, John (1760–95)
- Biegel, Paul (1925–2006)
- Biermann, Wolf (1936–)
- Bignon, Jean-Paul (1662–1743)
- Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876–1942)
- Black, Holly (1971–)
- Black Crook, The
- Blackwood, Algernon (1869–1951)
- Blake, Quentin (1932–)
- ‘Blanca Nieve’, ‘Blanche neige’
- Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente (1867–1928)
- ‘Blaubart’
- Block, Francesca Lia (1962–)
- ‘Bluebeard’ (‘Barbe-bleue’)
- Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (film: USA, 1938)
- ‘Bluebird, The’ (‘L'Oiseau bleu’, 1696)
- Blue Bird, The (film versions)
- Blue Light, The (Das blaue Licht; film: Germany, 1932)
- Blunck, Hans Friedrich (1888–1961)
- Bly, Robert (1926–)
- Blyton, Enid (1897–1968)
- Böhl de Faber, Cecilia (‘Fernán Caballero’, 1796–1877)
- Bonaviri, Giuseppe (1924–)
- Bonsels, Waldemar (1881–1952)
- Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986)
- Bouwman, Heather M.
- Boyle, Eleanor Vere (1825–1916)
- Boy who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, The
- ‘Brave Little Tailor, The’
- Bray, Anna (1790–1883)
- Breillat, Catherine (1948–)
- ‘Bremen Town Musicians, The’
- Brentano, Clemens (1778–1842)
- Breton lai (in English, lay)
- ‘Briar Rose’
- Brigadoon
- Briggs, Katharine (Katharine Mary Briggs, 1898–1980)
- Briggs, Raymond (Raymond Redvers Briggs, 1934–)
- British and Irish fairy tales
- British comics
- Brlić Mažuranić, Ivana (1874–1938)
- broadside (or Épinal)
- Broumas, Olga (1949–)
- Broun, Heywood (1888–1939)
- Browne, Anthony (1946–)
- Browne, Frances (1816–79)
- Bruna, Dick (1927–2017)
- Brust, Steven (1955–)
- Buckley, Michael (1969–)
- Burgess, Gelett (1866–1951)
- Burkert, Nancy Ekholm (1933–)
- burlesque fairy-tale films
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (1833–98)
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849–1924)
- Burton, Richard (1821–90)
- Burton, Tim (1958–)
- Busch, Wilhelm (1832–1908)
- Butcher, Jim (1971–)
- Buzzati, Dino (1906–72)
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan Byatt, 1936–)
- C
- Caballero, Fernán
- Cabinet des fées, Le
- Cadnum, Michael (1949–)
- Caldecott, Randolph (1846–86)
- Calvino, Italo (1923–85)
- Cannon Movietales
- Čapek, Karel (1890–1938)
- Capuana, Luigi (1839–1915)
- Card, Orson Scott (1951–)
- Carle, Eric (1929–)
- Carmody, Isobelle (1958–)
- Carroll, Jonathan (1949–)
- Carroll, Lewis (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–98)
- Carter, Angela (1940–92)
- cartoons and fairy tales
- Castroviejo, Concha (1915–95)
- Cavalli, Ennio (1947–)
- Cavicchioli, Giovanni (1894–1964)
- Caylus, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières de Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, comte de (1692–1765)
- Cazotte, Jacques (1719–92)
- ‘Cendrillon’, ‘Cenerentola’, ‘Cenicienta’
- Chamisso, Adelbert von (1781–1838)
- Chamoiseau, Patrick (1953–)
- chapbook
- Chase, Richard (1904–88)
- Chatelain, Clara de (1807–76)
- Children's and Household Tales
- Chiostri, Carlo (1863–1939)
- Choisy, François-Timoléon, abbé de (1644–1724)
- Chorpenning, Charlotte (1872–1955)
- Christiansen, Reidar (1886–1971)
- Chukovsky, Kornei (1882–1969)
- Cicognani, Bruno (1879–1971)
- ‘Cinderella’
- ‘Cinderella’ (film versions)
- Cinderella (musical)
- Cinderfella
- Clarke, Harry (Henry Patrick Clarke, 1889–1931)
- Clarke, Susanna (1959–)
- Clément, Frédéric (1949–)
- Clifford, Lucy Lane (1853?–1929)
- Cocteau, Jean-Maurice-Eugène-Clément (1889–1963)
- cognitive criticism and fairy tales
- Cole, Babette (1950–2017)
- Cole, Sir Henry (1808–82)
- Colfer, Chris (1990–)
- Collins, Suzanne (1962–)
- Collodi, Carlo (pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini, 1826–90)
- Colum, Padraic (1881–1972)
- comic books and graphic novels
- communist folk-tale films
- Company of Wolves, The (film)
- Comyns, Barbara (1907–92)
- Coover, Robert (1932–)
- Correia, Hélia (1949–)
- Cortázar, Julio (1914–84)
- Costa, Nicoletta (1953–)
- Cottingley Fairies, The
- Cox, Palmer (1840–1924)
- Coypel, Charles-Antoine (1694–1752)
- Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock, 1818–87) English novelist.
- Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813–92)
- Crane, Walter (1845–1915)
- Cranko, John (1927–73)
- Crébillon fils, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de (1707–77)
- Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854)
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William (1941–)
- Crowley, John (1942–)
- Crowquill, Alfred (pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804–72)
- Cruikshank, George (1792–1878)
- Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin Cummings, 1894–1962)
- Cunningham, Alan (1784–1842)
- ‘Cupid and Psyche’
- Curtin, Jeremiah (1835–1906)
- Czarnecki, Thomas (1980–)
- D
- Dadd, Richard (1817–86)
- Dadié, Bernard Binlin (1916–)
- Dahl, Roald (1917–90)
- Dandy, Beano, and Bunty
- Daudet, Alphonse (1840–97)
- Davenport, Tom (1939–)
- Davies, Peter Llewelyn (1897–1960)
- Davis, Kathryn (1946–)
- Dean, Pamela (1953–)
- Debussy, Claude (1862–1918)
- de la Mare, Walter (1873–1956)
- De Larrabeiti, Michael (1937–2008)
- Delessert, Étienne (1941–)
- Delibes, Léo (1836–91)
- De Lint, Charles (1951–)
- De Morgan, Mary (1850–1907)
- Demy, Jacques (1931–90)
- Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace Denslow, 1856–1915)
- dePaola, Tomie (1934–)
- De Simone, Roberto (1933–)
- Deulin, Charles (1827–77)
- Dick, Philip K. (1928–82)
- Dickens, Charles (1812–70)
- Didelot, Charles (1767–1837)
- Diderot, Denis (1713–84)
- digital fairy tales
- Dinesen, Isak (pseudonym of Karen Blixen, 1885–1962)
- Disney, Walt (1901–66)
- Disney comics
- Ditlevsen, Tove (1918–76)
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banjerjee (1956–)
- Döblin, Alfred (1878–1957)
- Doherty, Berlie (1943–)
- Dokey, Cameron (1956–)
- Donaldson, Julia (1948–)
- ‘Donkey-Skin’ (‘Peau d’âne’, 1694)
- Donoghue, Emma (1969–)
- Doré, Gustave (1832–83)
- Doyle, Richard (1824–83)
- drama and fairy tales
- Duane, Diane (1952–)
- Duclos, Charles Pinot (1704–72)
- Duffy, Carol Ann (1955–)
- Dukas, Paul (1865–1935)
- Dulac, Edmund (1882–1953)
- Dumas, Philippe (1940–)
- Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron (1878–1957)
- Durand, Catherine (née Bédacier, c. 1650–1712/15) French writer.
- Duvall, Shelley (1949–)
- Duve, Karen (1961–)
- Dvořák, Antonín (1841–1904)
- E
- Egner, Thorbjørn (1912–90)
- Eichendorff, Joseph Freiherr von (1788–1857)
- Elgar, Sir Edward (1857–1934)
- Ende, Michael (1929–95)
- Ensikat, Klaus (1937–)
- Erben, Karel Jaromír (1811–70)
- Ernst, Olga (1888–1972)
- Esterhazy, Daniska (1969–)
- Estes, Clarissa Pinkola (1943–)
- Eulalie (Eulalie Banks, 1895–1999)
- Ewald, Carl (1856–1908)
- Ewing, Juliana Horatia (1841–85)
- F
- faerie (also known as fairyland)
- Faerie Tale Theatre
- Fagnan, Marie-Antoinette (d. 1770?)
- ‘Fairies, The’
- fairy-tale blogs and websites
- Fallada, Hans (pseudonym of Rudolf Ditzen, 1893–1947)
- Fallen Fairies
- fantasy literature and fairy tales
- Farjeon, Eleanor (1881–1965)
- Farmer, Philip José (1918–2009)
- Feist, Raymond E. (1945–)
- feminism and fairy tales
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651–1715)
- Ferra-Mikura, Vera (1923–97)
- Ferro, Martino (1974–)
- Ferron, Jacques (1921–85)
- Fetscher, Iring (1922–2014)
- Fielding, Sarah (1710–68)
- Figes, Eva (1932–2012)
- film and fairy tales
- Finian's Rainbow
- Fiorentino, Giovanni (second half of 14th century)
- Fitzgerald, John Anster (1823–1906)
- Flake, Otto (1880–1963)
- Fleischer Brothers
- Fleutiaux, Pierrette (1941–)
- Flinn, Alex (1955–)
- Fokine, Michel (1880–1942)
- Folkard, Charles James (1878–1963)
- folklore and fairy tales
- Fontana, Ugo (1921–1985)
- ‘Foolish Wishes, The’ (‘Les Souhaits ridicules’, 1693)
- Ford, Ford Madox (1873–1939)
- Foreman, Michael (1938–)
- Forsyth, Kate (1966–)
- Fouqué, Friedrich Freiherr de la Motte (1777–1843)
- fractured fairy tales
- France, fairy tales in
- France, Anatole (pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault, 1844–1924) French poet, novelist, critic, and Nobel laureate (1921)
- Frank, Natalie (1980–)
- Franklin Brothers, the (Sidney, 1893–1972, and Chester, 1890–1949)
- Frau Holle
- Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (1852–1930)
- Freleng, Fitz (1906–1995)
- ‘Frog King, The’
- Frølich, Lorenz (1820–1908)
- Frost, Gregory (1951–)
- Froud, Brian (1947–)
- Fuchs, Günter Bruno (1928–77)
- Fühmann, Franz (1922–84)
- Funke, Cornelia (1958–)
- Furniss, Harry (1854–1925)
- Fuseli, Henry (1741–1825)
- Fyleman, Rose (Rose Amy Fyleman, 1877–1957)
- G
- Gaarder, Jostein (1952–)
- Gadda, Carlo Emilio (1893–1973)
- Gág, Wanda (1893–1946)
- Gaiman, Neil (1960–)
- Galdone, Paul (1914–86)
- Galland, Antoine (1646–1715)
- Garcia, Camille Rose (1970–)
- García Márquez, Gabriel (1928–2014)
- Gardner, John (1933–82)
- Gardner, Sally (no dates available)
- Garner, Alan (1934–)
- Garner, James Finn (1960–)
- Gaskell, Elizabeth (married name of Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, 1810–65)
- Gautier, Théophile (1811–72)
- Gavarni (pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–66)
- Gefaell, María Luisa (1918–78)
- Geras, Adèle (1944–)
- Germany, fairy tales in
- Gerstein, Mordecai (1935–)
- Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans)
- Gibbs, Cecilia May (1877–1969)
- Gidwitz, Adam (1982–)
- Giraudoux, Jean (1882–1944)
- Glass, Philip (1937–)
- Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804–57)
- Goble, Paul (1933–2017)
- Godoy Alcántara, José (1825–75)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)
- Goldman, William (1931–)
- Goldschmidt, Meïr Aron (1819–87)
- Goldstein, Dina (1969–)
- Goldstein, Lisa (1953–)
- Golia (pseudonym of Eugenio Colmo, 1885–1967)
- Gomez, Marie-Angélique Poission, dame Gabriel de (1684–1770)
- Gonzenbach, Laura (1842–78)
- Goodrich, Samuel (1793–1860)
- Gorey, Edward (1925–2000)
- Gourmont, Remy de (1858–1915)
- Goverde, Thijs (1971–)
- Govoni, Corrado (1884–1965)
- Goytisolo, Juan (1931–2017)
- Gozzano, Guido (1883–1916)
- Gozzi, Carlo (1720–1806)
- Grace, Patricia (1937–)
- Grahame, Kenneth (1859–1932)
- Grass, Günter (1927–)
- Gray, Nicholas Stuart (1922–81)
- Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918–87)
- Greenaway, Kate (1846–1901)
- greetings cards and fairy tales
- Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste (1741–1813)
- Grimault, Paul (1905–94)
- Grimm, Albert Ludwig (1786–1872)
- Grimm, Brothers (Jacob Grimm, 1785–1863 and Wilhelm Grimm, 1786–1859)
- Grimm, Ludwig Emil (1790–1863)
- Gripari, Pierre (1925–90)
- Gripe, Maria (1923–2007)
- Gross, Milt (1895–1953)
- Grötzsch, Robert (1882–1946)
- Gruelle, John Barton (1880–1938)
- Grundtvig, Svend (1824–83)
- Gueulette, Thomas-Simon (1683–1766)
- Gulbransson, Olaf (1873–1958)
- H
- Hacks, Peter (1928–2003)
- Hale, Shannon (1974–)
- Hamilton, Anthony (c.1646–1720) Exiled English writer
- Hamilton, Virginia (1936–2002)
- Handel, George Frederick (1685–1759)
- Hannover, Heinrich (1925–)
- Hans Christian Andersen (film: USA, 1952)
- ‘Hansel and Gretel’
- Harris, Joel Chandler (1848–1908)
- Hartzell, Päivi (1949–)
- Hartzenbusch, Juan Eugenio (1806–80)
- Hauff, Wilhelm (1802–27)
- Haugen, Tormod (1945–2008)
- Hauptmann, Gerhart (1862–1946)
- Haviland, Virginia (1911–88)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–64)
- Hay, Sara Henderson (1906–87)
- Haymon, Ava Leavell (no dates available)
- Hearn, Lafcadio (1850–1904)
- Hegenbarth, Josef (1884–1962)
- Heidelbach, Nikolaus (1955–)
- Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856)
- Heine, Helme (1941–)
- Heine, Thomas Theodor (1867–1948)
- Hélias, Pierre Jakez (1914–1995)
- Henson, Jim (1936–90)
- Hessel, Franz (1880–1941)
- Hetmann, Frederik (pseudonym of Hans-Christian Kirsch, 1934–2006)
- Heym, Stefan (pseudonym of Helmut Flieg, 1913–2001) Controversial (East)
- Hindemith, Paul (1865–1963)
- Hines, Jim (1974–)
- Histoires ou contes du temps passé avec des moralités
- Hoban, Russell (Russell Conwell Hoban) (1925–2011) Award-winning American writer,
- Hoernle, Edwin (1883–1952)
- Hoffman, Alice (1952–)
- Hoffmann, E. T. A. (1776–1822)
- Hoffmann, Heinrich (1809–94)
- Hofman, Wim (1941–)
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1874–1929)
- Hogg, James (1770–1835)
- Holt, Tom (1961–)
- Hoppe, Felicitas (1960–)
- Hopper, Nora (1871–1906)
- Horvàth, Ödon von (1901–38)
- Hosemann, Theodor (1807–75)
- Housman, Laurence (1865–1959)
- Houssaye, Arsène (1815–96)
- Hughes, Arthur (1823–1915)
- Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren (1900–76)
- Hughes, Ted (Edward James Hughes, 1930–98)
- Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854–1921)
- Hurston, Zora Neale (1891–1960)
- Husain, Shahrukh (1950–)
- Hyman, Trina Schart (1939–2004)
- I
- Illés, Béla (1895–1974)
- Imbriani, Vittorio (1840–86)
- Ingelow, Jean (1820–97)
- Ingemann, Bernhard Severin (1789–1862)
- Innocenti, Roberto (1940–)
- Into the Woods
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri (1882)
- Irish fairy-tale films
- ‘Iron Hans’
- ‘Iron John’
- Irving, Washington (1783–1859)
- Irwin, Robert (1946–)
- Italy, fairy tales in
- J
- Jack and the Beanstalk (film version)
- Jack Tales
- Jacobs, Joseph (1854–1916)
- Janáček, Leoš (1854–1928)
- Janosch (pseudonym of Horst Eckert, 1931–)
- Janssen, Susanne (1965–)
- Jansson, Tove (1914–2001)
- Japan, fairy tales in
- Jarrell, Randall (1914–65)
- Jones, Adrienne and Allen, Peter
- Jones, Diana Wynne (1934–2011)
- Jones, Terry (1942–)
- Jonson, Ben (1572–1637)
- Jordan, Neil (1950–)
- Joyce, Graham (1954–)
- Juan, Ana (1961–)
- Juan Bobo stories
- Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961)
- ‘Juniper Tree, The’
- K
- Kaffeterkreis (Coffee Circle)
- Kafka, Franz (1883–1924)
- Kalevala (1835)
- Kane, Alice (1908–2003)
- Kawabata, Yasunari (1899–1972)
- Keary, Annie (1825–79)
- Keats, Ezra Jack (1916–83)
- Keene, Nietzchka (1952–2004)
- Keightley, Thomas (1789–1872) Irish author of The Fairy Mythology (1828).
- Kennedy, Patrick (1801–73)
- Kennedy, Richard (1932–)
- Kent, Jack (1920–85)
- Kerner, Justinus (1786–1862)
- Kerr, Peg (1959–)
- Kilworth, Garry (1941–)
- Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales, 1812–15)
- Kingsley, Charles (1819–75) English novelist, Anglican clergyman, and author of The Water-Babies (1863),
- Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940–)
- Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936)
- Kirsch, Sarah (1935–2013)
- Kismet
- Knatchbull-Hugessen, Edward, first Baron Brabourne (1829–93)
- Knipfel, Jim (1965–)
- Korczak, Janusz (pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmidt, 1878–1942)
- Koser-Michaels, Ruth (1896–1968) and Koser, Martin (1903–71) German illustrators
- Koslow, Ron (1947–)
- Kotzwinkle, William E. (1938–)
- Kredel, Fritz (1900–73)
- Kreidolf, Ernst (1863–1956)
- Kress, Nancy (1948–)
- Krúdy, Gyla (1878–1933)
- Krüss, James (1926–97)
- Kubin Alfred (1877–1959)
- Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn (1965–)
- Kumin, Maxine (1925–2014)
- Kunert, Günter (1929–)
- Kunze, Reiner (1933–)
- Kurahashi, Yumiko (1935–2005)
- Kurz, Isolde (1853–1944)
- Kushner, Ellen (1955–)
- Kyber, Manfred (1880–1933)
- L
- Lackey, Mercedes (1950–)
- Lacombe, Benjamin (1982–)
- Lada, Josef (1887–1957)
- La Force, Charlotte-Rose Caumont de (1654–1724)
- Lagerkvist, Pär (1891–1974)
- Lagerlöf, Selma (1858–1940)
- Lamb, Charles (1775–1834)
- La Morlière, Charles-Jacques-Louis-Auguste Rochette de (1701–85)
- Lanagan, Margo (1960–)
- Landolfi, Tommaso (1908–80)
- Lang, Andrew (1844–1912)
- Lasswitz, Kurd (1848–1910)
- Last Unicorn, The (film: USA, 1982)
- Lazare, Bernard (1865–1903)
- Lee, Tanith (1947–2015)
- Le Guin, Ursula (1929–2018)
- Leibovitz, Annie (1949–)
- Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824–1903)
- Lem, Stanislaw (1921–2006)
- Lemaître, Jules (1853–1914)
- Lemon, Mark (1809–70) English writer and the first editor of Punch.
- Le Noble, Eustache (1643–1711)
- Lenski, Lois (1893–1974)
- Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie (1711–80)
- Lermontov, Mikhail (1814–41)
- Lerner, Alan Jay (1918–86)
- Levesque, Louise Cavelier (1703–45)
- Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples Lewis, 1898–1963)
- Lhéritier de Villandon, Marie-Jeanne (?1664–1734)
- Liestøl, Knut (1881–1952)
- Linati, Carlo (1878–1949)
- Lindgren, Astrid (1907–2002)
- Link, Kelly (1969–)
- Lintot, Catherine Caillot dame de (c.1728–?) French writer about whom virtually nothing is known.
- ‘Little Mermaid, The’
- ‘Little Nemo’
- Little Prince, The (film: USA, 1974)
- ‘Little Red Riding Hood’
- ‘Little Tom Thumb’ (‘Le Petit Poucet’)
- Lo, Malinda (no dates available)
- Lobe, Mira (1913–95)
- Lobel, Anita (1934–)
- Lobel, Arnold (1933–87)
- Loorits, Oskar (1900–61)
- López Salamero, Nunila (1966–)
- Lorrain, Jean (1855–1906)
- Lortzing, Albert (1801–51)
- Lover, Samuel (1797–1868)
- Lubert, Marguerite de (c.1710–79)
- Lynch, P. J. (Patrick James Lynch, 1962–)
- Lynch, Patricia (1894–1972)
- M
- Maar, Paul (1937–)
- McCarthy, Paul (1945–)
- McCay, Winsor (1867–1934)
- McDermott, Gerald (1941–2012)
- MacDonald, George (1824–1905)
- McKillip, Patricia A. (1948–)
- McKinley, Robin (Jennifer Carolyn McKinley, 1952–)
- MacManus, Seumas (c.1868–1960) Irish dramatist, poet, and prolific writer of popular stories,
- McNeal, Tom (1950–)
- Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862–1949)
- Maguire, Gregory (1954–)
- Mahfouz, Naguib (1911–2006)
- Mahy, Margaret (1936–2012)
- Mailly, Jean, chevalier de (?–1724)
- Maitland, Sara (1950–)
- Malamud, Bernard (1914–86)
- Malerba, Luigi (1927–2008)
- Mameli, Paolo (1956–)
- Mardrus, Joseph Charles (1848–1949)
- Marie de France
- Marinuzzi, Gino (1882–1945)
- Marshak, Samuil (1887–1964)
- Marshall, James (James Edward Marshall, 1942–92)
- Martín Gaite, Carmen (1925–2000)
- Masson, Sophie (1959–)
- Mateos, Aurora (no dates available)
- Matthiessen, Wilhelm (1891–1965)
- Matute, Ana María (1925–2014)
- Mayer, Charles-Joseph, chevalier de (1751–1825) French writer and editor of the 40-volume Cabinet des fées (1785–9).
- Mayer, Mercer (1943–)
- Meckel, Christoph (1935–)
- Méliès, Georges (1861–1938)
- ‘Mélusine’
- Mendelssohn, Felix (1809–47)
- Mendès, Catulle (1841–1909)
- mermaid fairy-tale films
- Meyer, Stephenie (1973–)
- Meyrink, Gustav (1868–1932)
- Michelstaedter, Carlo (1887–1910)
- Midsummer Night's Dream, A (film versions)
- Millar, Harold Robert (1869–1942)
- Millhauser, Steven (1943–)
- Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander Milne, 1882–1956)
- Mitchison, Naomi (1897–1999)
- Miyazaki, Hayao (1941–)
- Mizuki, Shigeru (1922–2015)
- Mizuno, Junko (1973–)
- Moe, Jørgen
- Moe, Moltke (1859–1913)
- Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839–1921)
- Moncrif, François-Auguste Paradis de (1687–1770)
- Montresor, Beni (1926–2001)
- Moomin characters (or Moomintrolls)
- Moravia, Alberto (pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, 1907–90)
- Morgan le Fay
- Morgin, Kristen L. (1968–)
- Morgner, Irmtraud (Irmtraud Elfriede Schreck, 1933–90)
- Mörike, Eduard (1804–75)
- Morin, Henry (1873–1961)
- Morris, William (1834–96)
- Mother Goose
- Mother Holle
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91)
- Mrs Pepperpot
- Mueller, Lisel (1924–)
- Mulder, Elizabeth (1904–87)
- Munro, Alice (1931–)
- Munsch, Robert (1945–)
- Murat, Henriette Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de (1670–1716)
- Murphy, Louise (1943–)
- Musäus, Johann Karl August (1735–87)
- Musil, Robert (1880–1942)
- myth/mythology and fairy tales
- N
- Napoli, Donna Jo (1948–)
- Naubert, Benedikte (b. Hebenstreit; m. Holderieder, widowed; m. Naubert, 1756–1819)
- Neill, John R. (John Rea Neill, 1877–1943)
- Němcová, Božena (1820–62)
- Nerval, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie, 1808–55)
- Nesbit, Edith (1858–1924)
- Nestroy, Johann (1801–62)
- Neverending Story, The (Die unendliche Geschichte)
- Nielsen, Kay Rasmus (1886–1957)
- Nimue
- Nix, Garth (1963–)
- Nodier, Charles (1780–1844)
- Nodot, Paul-François (fl. 1695–1700) French writer.
- Nooteboom, Cees (1933–)
- Norstein, Yuri (1941–)
- North American and Canadian fairy tales
- Norton, Mary (1903–92)
- Nöstlinger, Christine (1936–2018)
- Novalis (pseudonym of Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801)
- Novaro, Angelo Silvio (1868–1938)
- nursery comics
- Nyblom, Helena (1843–1926)
- Nyström, Jenny (1854–1946)
- O
- Oates, Joyce Carol (1938–)
- Ōba, Minako (1930–2007)
- O'Casey, Sean (1880–1964)
- Ocelot, Michel (1943–)
- Oehlenschläger, Adam (1779–1850)
- Offenbach, Jacques (1819–80)
- Ogawa, Yōko (1962–)
- Okri, Ben (1959–)
- Ole Lukkøje
- Olrik, Axel (1864–1917)
- Ontiveros, José Rodolfo Loaiza (1982–)
- opera and fairy tales
- operetta and fairy tales
- oral tradition and fairy tales
- oriental fairy tales
- Ossorio y Bernard, Manuel (1839–1904)
- Othoniel, Jean-Michel (1964–)
- Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul (fl.1920–35) Australian writer and illustrator
- Oyeyemi, Helen (1984–)
- P
- Pacovská, Kvĕta (1928–)
- Paget, Francis (1806–82)
- Paine, Albert Bigelow (1861–1937)
- Pajon, Henri (?–1776)
- Pal, George (1908–80)
- Palacio Valdés, Armando (1853–1937)
- Panchatantra
- Pancrazi, Pietro (1893–1952)
- Panzini, Alfredo (1863–1939)
- Pardo Bazán, Emilia (1851–1921)
- Parrish, Maxfield (1870–1966)
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922–75)
- Paton, Joseph Noël (1821–1901)
- Paulding, James Kirke (1778–1860)
- Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866)
- Peake, Mervyn Laurence (1911–68)
- Pedley, Ethel (1859–1898)
- Peele, George (c.1558–96) English dramatist,
- Pentamerone
- Pereda, José María de (1833–1906)
- Pérez Galdós, Benito (1843–1920)
- Perodi, Emma (1850–1918)
- Perrault, Charles (1628–1703)
- Peterfreund, Diana (1979–)
- Peter Pan
- Peter Pan (film)
- Peter Pan (musical)
- Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila (1938–)
- piacevoli notti, Le (1550–3)
- Pinborough, Sarah (1972–)
- Pinkney, Brian (1961–)
- Pinkney, Jerry (1939–)
- Pinocchio, The Adventures of (Le avventure di Pinocchio)
- Pippi Longstocking
- Pitrè, Giuseppe (1841–1916)
- Pitzorno, Bianca (1942–)
- Piumini, Roberto (1947–)
- Planché, James Robinson (1796–1880)
- Pocci, Franz von (1807–76)
- poetry and fairy tales
- Pogány, Willy (1882–1955)
- Pogodin, Radi (1925–93)
- Polívka, Jiří (1858–1933)
- Pontiggia, Giuseppe (1934–2003)
- popular song and fairy tales
- pornography and fairy tales
- Portuguese fairy tales
- postcards and fairy tales
- Potócki, Jan (1761–1815)
- Potter, Beatrix (1866–1943)
- Pourrat, Henri (1887–1959)
- Powell, Michael (1905–90) and Pressburger, Emeric (1902–88)
- Pratchett, Terry (1948–2015)
- Pratt, Tim (1976–) Prolific, award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet, and senior editor at Locus magazine.
- Préchac, Jean de (1676–?)
- Prelusky, Jack (1940–) American writer of children's poetry
- Preus, Margi (no dates available)
- Preussler, Otfried (1923–2013)
- ‘Princess and the Pea, The’ (‘Prindsessen paa Ærten’)
- Princess Bride, The (Rob Reiner, 1987)
- Prineas, Sarah (no dates available)
- Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeievitch (1891–1953)
- Propp, Vladimir (1895–1970)
- proverbial language and fairy tales
- Prøysen, Alf (1914–70)
- Prussian, Claire (1930–)
- psychology and fairy tales
- Puccini, Giacomo (1858–1924)
- Pullman, Sir Philip (1946–)
- Purcell, Henry (1659–95)
- Pushkin, Alexander (1799–1837)
- ‘Puss-in-Boots’
- Pyle, Howard (1853–1911)
- Q
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas (1863–1944)
- R
- Rackham, Arthur (1867–1939)
- Raimund, Ferdinand (pseudonym of Jakob Raimann, 1790–1836)
- Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828–89)
- Randolph, Vance (1892–1980)
- Ransome, Arthur (1884–1967)
- ‘Rapunzel’
- Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair (film: UK, 1978)
- Ravel, Maurice (1875–1937)
- Redgrove, Peter (1932–2003)
- ‘Red Shoes, The’ (‘De Røde Sko’, 1845)
- Régnier, Henri de (1864–1936)
- Rego, Paula (1935–)
- Reid Banks, Lynne (1929–)
- Reinick, Robert (1805–52)
- Reiniger, Lotte (1899–1981)
- Ricard, Jules (1848–1903)
- Rice, Anne (1941–)
- Richter, Ludwig (Adrian Ludwig Richter, 1803–84).
- Rickert, M. (Mary Rickert, 1959–)
- Riley, James Whitcomb (1849–1916)
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreievich (1844–1908)
- Ringelnatz, Joachim (pen name of Hans Bötticher, 1883–1934)
- ‘Riquet with the Tuft’ (‘Riquet à la houppe’)
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (1837–1919)
- ‘Robber Bridegroom, The’
- Robinson, Charles (1870–1937)
- Robinson, Thomas Heath (1869–1950)
- Robinson, William Heath (1872–1944)
- Rodari, Gianni (1920–80)
- Roi et l'oiseau, Le (The King and the Bird)
- Romano, Lalla (1906–2001)
- Rosen, Michael (1946–)
- Rossetti, Christina (1830–94)
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–82)
- Rossini, Gioacchino (1792–1868)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78)
- Rowling, J. K. (Joanne Rowling, 1965–)
- Rubino, Antonio (1880–1964)
- Rühmkorf, Peter (1929–2008)
- ‘Rumpelstiltskin’
- Rushdie, Salman (1947–)
- Rushforth, P. S. (Peter Scott Rushforth, 1945–2005)
- Ruskin, John (1819–1900)
- Ruy-Vidal, François (1931–)
- S
- S. Svend Otto (real name Svend Otto Sörensen, 1916–96)
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de (1900–44)
- Sand, George (pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant, née Dupin, 1804–76) French romantic novelist and writer.
- Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967)
- Sanderson, Ruth (1951–)
- San Souci, Robert (1946–)
- Sanvitale, Francesca (1928–2011)
- Sargood, Corinna (1941–)
- Sarnelli, Pompeo (1649–1724)
- Scandinavian countries, fairy tales in
- Scarry, Richard (1919–94)
- Schami, Rafik (1946–)
- Scheherazade
- Schenck, Johann Baptist (1753–1836)
- Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805)
- Schönlank, Bruno (1891–1965)
- schools of folk-narrative research
- Schröder, Binette (1939–)
- Schulz, Heinrich (1872–1932)
- Schumann, Robert (1810–56)
- Schwartz, Yevgeni (1896–1958)
- Schwind, Moritz von (1804–71)
- Schwitters, Kurt (1887–1948)
- Schwob, Marcel (1867–1905)
- science fiction and fairy tales
- Scieszka, Jon (1954–)
- Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)
- Scudder, Horace (1838–1902)
- Ségur Sophie, comtesse de (1799–1874)
- Seidel, Heinrich (1842–1906)
- Seidel, Ina (1885–1974)
- Sélis, Nicolas (1737–1802)
- Sendak, Jack (1923–95)
- Sendak, Maurice (1928–2012)
- Sercambi, Giovanni (1348–1424)
- Seton, Ernest Thompson (1860–1946)
- Seuss, Dr (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Giesel, 1904–91)
- Sexton, Anne (1928–74)
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
- Sharp, Evelyn (1869–1955)
- Shepard, Ernest Howard (1879–1976)
- Sherman, Cindy (1954–)
- Sherman, Delia (1951–)
- Shrek (films)
- Shua, Ana Maria (1951–)
- Shulman, Polly (1963–)
- Shwartz, Susan (1949–)
- Sibelius, Jean (1865–1957)
- Sierra, Judy (1945–)
- Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948–)
- Sinclair, Catherine (1800–64)
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904–91)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Sir Orfeo
- Slater, Lauren (1963–) American clinical psychologist, freelance writer, and award-winning author.
- Slavic and Baltic countries, fairy tales in
- ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (‘Briar Rose’)
- Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin Sloane, 1872–1925) American theatre composer.
- Smith, Harry B. (1860–1936)
- Smith, Jessie Willcox (1863–1935)
- Smith, Kiki (1954–)
- Snow, John Frederick ‘Jack’ (1907–56) American author of Oz books.
- ‘Snow Queen, The’ (‘Sneedronningen’)
- ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’
- socialization and fairy tales
- Solinas Donghi, Beatrice (1923–)
- Solomon, Fred (Frederick Charles Solomon, 1853–1924)
- Sørensen, Villy (1929–2002)
- Spain, fairy tales in
- Spenser, Edmund (1552–99)
- Spielberg, Steven (1946–)
- Springer, Nancy (1948–)
- Stahl, Karoline (née Dumpf, 1776–1837) Livonian writer of fairy tales and didactic literature for children.
- stamps and fairy tales
- Starewicz, Ladislaw (1882–1965)
- ‘Steadfast Tin Soldier, The’ (‘Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat’)
- Steiber, Ellen (1955–)
- Steig, William (1907–2003)
- Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)
- Stephens, George (1813–95)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–94)
- Stewart, Sean (1965–)
- Stockton, Frank (1834–1902)
- Storm, Theodor (1817–88)
- Storr, Catherine (1913–2001)
- storytelling and fairy tales
- Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c.1480–1558) Italian writer and poet,
- Stratton, Helen (fl. 1892–1925) British illustrator
- Strauss, Gwen (1963–)
- Strauss, Richard (1864–1949)
- Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich (1882–1971)
- Strindberg, August (1849–1912)
- Stuckenberg, Viggo (1863–1905)
- Suárez Solís, Sara (1925–2000)
- Sutermeister, Otto (1832–1901)
- Švankmajer, Jan (1934–)
- Svevo, Italo (pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz, 1861–1928)
- Swan, Anni (1875–1958)
- T
- Tabart, Benjamin (c.1767/8–1833) London bookseller and proprietor of the Juvenile Library
- Taglioni, Filippo (1778–1871)
- Taglioni, Paul (1808–84)
- Takahashi, Rumiko (1957–)
- Tale of a Youth who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, The (Von einem, der auszog, das Gruseln zu lernen)
- Tarrant, Margaret (1888–1959)
- Tawada, Yōko (1960–)
- Taylor, Edgar (1793–1839)
- Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840–93)
- Tegner, Hans Kristian (1853–1932)
- television and fairy tales
- Temple, Shirley (1928–2014)
- Tenggren, Gustaf (1896–1970)
- Tenniel, John (1820–1914) English illustrator and cartoonist for Punch.
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–92)
- Tepper, Sheri S. (1929–2016)
- Terayama, Shūji (1935–83)
- Tetzner, Lisa (1894–1963)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–63) English novelist and author of The Rose and the Ring (1855).
- Thief of Baghdad, The
- Thompson, Alfred (pseudonym of Thompson E. Jones, 1831–95)
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly (1891–1976)
- Thorpe, Benjamin (1782–1870)
- Thousand and One Nights, The
- ‘Thumbelina’ (or ‘Inchelina’)
- Thurber, James (1894–1961)
- Tieck, Ludwig (1773–1853)
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892–1973)
- Tolstoy, Aleksei (1882/3–1945)
- Tolstoy, Lev (1828–1910)
- ‘Tom Thumb’
- Topelius, Zacharias (1818–98)
- Tournier, Michel (1924–)
- Travers, Pamela Lyndon (1906–96)
- Trnka, Jiří (1912–69)
- Tucker, Charlotte Maria (1821–93)
- Turgeon, Carolyn (1971–)
- Tutuola, Amos (1920–1997)
- Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910)
- U
- Ubbelohde, Otto (1867–1922)
- ‘Ugly Duckling, The’
- Undine
- Ungerer, Tomi (pseudonym of Jean Thomas, 1931–2019)
- Ursu, Anne (no dates available)
- Uttley, Alison (1884–1976)
- V
- Valente, Catherynne M. (1979–)
- Valenzuela, Luisa (1938–)
- Valeri, Diego (1887–1976)
- Vande Velde, Vivian (1951–)
- Vess, Charles (1951–)
- Victorian fairy painting
- Vidal, Beatriz Martín (1973–)
- Villardefrancos, Marisa (1915–1975)
- Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de (1685–1755)
- Vogeler, Heinrich (1872–1942)
- Voisenon, Claude-Henri de Fuzée, abbé de (1708–75)
- Volkmann, Richard von (pseudonym of Richard Leander, 1830–89)
- Volkov, Aleksandr (1891–1977)
- Voltaire (pseudonym of François Marie Arouet, 1694–1778)
- W
- Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich (1773–98)
- Waddell, Martin (1941–)
- Waechter, Friedrich Karl (1937–2005)
- Wagner, Richard (1813–83)
- Walcott, Derek (1930–2017)
- Walker, Barbara G. (1930–)
- Walker, Wendy (1951–)
- Walser, Robert (1878–1956)
- Walsh, Jill Paton (1937–)
- Walton, Jo (1964–)
- Warner, Marina (1946–)
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893–1978)
- Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786–1826)
- Weldon, Fay (1931–)
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George Wells, 1866–1946) British novelist and social critic,
- Wenz-Viëtor, Else (1882–1973)
- Werenskiold, Erik (1855–1938)
- Whistler, Rex (Reginald John Whistler, 1905–44)
- White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury White, 1906–64)
- Wiechert, Ernst (pseudonym of Ernst Barany Bjell, 1887–1950)
- Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733–1813)
- Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
- Wilde's fairy tales, film adaptations
- Williams, Jay (1914–78)
- Willingham, Bill (1956–)
- Willow (film: USA, 1988)
- Windling, Terri
- Winterson, Jeanette (1959–)
- Wizard of Oz, The (1900)
- Wizard of Oz, The (film: USA, 1939)
- Wizard of Oz, The (stage versions)
- Wolf, Friedrich (pseudonym of Johannes Laicus, 1817–55)
- Wolff, Albert (1884–1970)
- Woodward, Alice B. (1862–1951)
- Wrede, Patricia C. (1953–)
- Wynne-Jones, Tim (1948–)
- Y
- Yanagi, Miwa (1967–)
- Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939)
- ‘Yellow Dwarf, The’
- Yep, Laurence (1948–)
- Yolen, Jane (1939–)
- Z
- Zelinsky, Paul O. (1953–)
- Zemach, Margot (1931–89)
- Zeman, Karel (1910–89)
- Zingerle, Ignaz Vinzenz (1825–92) and Zingerle, Joseph (1831–91) German folklorists.
- Zur Mühlen, Hermynia (1883–1951)
- Zwerger, Lisbeth (1954–)
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