Maria Tatar
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Biography
Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany.[1] Her family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child.[5]
She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.[6]
Tatar earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University and a doctoral degree from Princeton University.[6][7] In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978.[6] She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Selected works
- Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1978) Template:ISBN
- The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Princeton, 1987) Template:ISBN
- Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Princeton, 1993) Template:ISBN
- The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002) Template:ISBN
- The Annotated Brothers Grimm (W.W. Norton, 2004) Template:ISBN
- The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W.W. Norton, 2008) Template:ISBN
- Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (W.W. Norton, April 2009)[8] Template:ISBN
- "From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters: Why Children Read" (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Summer 2009, vol.43, no.2, p. 19–36) ISSN 0021-8510
- The Annotated Peter Pan, ed., (W.W. Norton, 2011) Template:ISBN
- The Annotated African American Folktales, ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr., (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2017), Template:ISBN
- The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters, (Harvard University Press, 2020) Template:ISBN
- The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 2021), Template:ISBN
References
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- ↑ a b "Notice de personne: Tatar, Maria (1945–....)". Catalogue. National Library of France (bnf.fr). Retrieved 2017-05-11.
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- ↑ Amy Sutherland (October 27, 2012). "Maria Tatar: Professor and fairy-tale expert". The Boston Globe.
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External links
- Maria Tatar at Harvard University
- Breezes from Wonderland – Tatar's blog on storytelling, folklore, and children's literature
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- "Tatar Discusses Development of Fairy Tales", The Harvard Crimson (April 8, 2012)
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