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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–)
• Bibliography