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Jerrold Connors

children's book author and illustrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ140263828 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jerrold Connors is a children's book author and illustrator. He is the author of Jim! (2025) and Stampede (2026). In 2026, Jim! won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's Literature.

Connors was born in the United States, then grew up in Indonesia and Canada. As of 2026, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Writing

Jim! (2025)

Connors's debut book, JIM! Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall, is a biographical picture book published by The Dial Press in May 2025.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jerrold Connors” as children's book author and illustrator. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jerrold, Connors and children's can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as children's book author and illustrator. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140263828. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jerrold Connors” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.