Mary Poppins
About the Author
P.L. Travers (1899–1996), born Helen Goff, was an Australian-born writer. Brought up in Queensland and New South Wales, she attended boarding school in Sydney and later worked as a Shakespearean actor. She began to publish journalism and poetry in Australian and New Zealand newspapers in her early twenties and continued to practice both crafts after emigrating to England in 1924. She won fame with the publication of Mary Poppins (1934, Folio 2024); seven sequels were later published, and it was adapted as a Disney film in the 1960s and a stage musical in the West End and on Broadway from 2006. Travers also wrote a number of other novels and works of non-fiction. She worked in New York for the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War but spent most of her life in England, where she was made an OBE in 1977 and where she died in Chelsea, her home for many years.