Walter S. Rogers

Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Walter S. Rogers is identified in library and books catalog records as Walter Stanton Rogers. Reliable book-history sources connect him with illustrations for a number of children’s and adventure titles, including editions preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page.

He is remembered less as a household-name author than as a skilled visual storyteller whose drawings shaped the way young readers imagined the books in front of them. His illustrations appeared at a time when richly decorated editions were an important part of popular reading, especially for younger audiences.

Some records list his life dates as 1870–1937, while your entry gives 1871–1937, so the birth year appears to vary by source. Based on the sources I could confirm here, it is safest to say he was an American illustrator active in the early 1900s whose work remained closely associated with classic juvenile literature.