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American writer
Marianna Mayer (born in New York City on November 8, 1945) is a well-known children’s book writer and artist from
Roxbury, Connecticut. Her early education was in the field of the
visual arts. After one year of college, she became a student
painter at the
Art Students League in
New York City.
[1] Her first book was published when she was nineteen years old.
[2] She is known for her retellings of folk and fairy tales.
[3] She is the author of
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave and her written versions of
Pegasus, and
The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
[2] She was the first wife of the famous illustrator,
Mercer Mayer.
- a retelling of the
Beauty and the Beast story, Illustrated by
Mercer Mayer (
Four Winds Press, 1978)
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The Unicorn Alphabet, Illustrated by
Michael Hague (
Dial Books, 1989)
- a a retelling of the
Brothers Grimm story,
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Illustrated by
Kinuko Y. Craft (
Morrow Junior Books, 1989)
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Marcel the Pastry Chef, Illustrated by
Gerald McDermott (
Bantam Books, 1991)
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Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, Illustrated by
Kinuko Y. Craft (
HarperCollins, 1994)
- a retelling of the
Pegasus legend, Illustrated by
Kinuko Y. Craft (
HarperCollins, 1998)
- a retelling of
The Adventures of Tom Thumb, Illustrated by
Kinuko Y. Craft (
Chronicle Books, 2001)
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^ De Montreville, Doris, and Elizabeth D. Crawford. Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators. Wilson, 1978, pp. 257-259.
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b
Marianna Mayer, biography from HarperCollins.com
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^ Schutt, Melissa. “Mayer, Marianna.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, edited by Jack Zipes, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 44.
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