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Who wrote all this
Two of the three never wrote a word of what they are famous for. One of them may not have existed. Here is who they actually were, and everything by each of them you can read here free.
Greek fabulist · about 620 to 564 BC, if he lived at all
Aesop
The most read storyteller in the world, and probably not a real person.
20 texts here · 3,806 words
folklorist and historian · 1854 to 1916
Joseph Jacobs
The man who noticed that English children were growing up on German fairy tales.
16 texts here · 26,814 words
philologists and collectors · Jacob 1785 to 1863, Wilhelm 1786 to 1859
The Brothers Grimm
Two academics who set out to record a language and accidentally wrote the world's fairy tales.
14 texts here · 15,319 words