Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. She is the author of Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and many other books on folklore and fairy stories. She is also the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Peter Pan, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition and The Grimm Reader. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Books by Maria Tatar
The Bicentennial Edition
Celebrate the 200th birthday of the Brothers Grimm stories with this lavish volume now richly expanded for a new generation.More
Not since Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has there been such an illuminating contribution to the world of children's fairy tales.More
A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.More
The Centennial Edition
"Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."—Mark TwainMore
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.More
Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.More
Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.More