Marianna Mayer
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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.
Bibliography
[edit]- a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story, Illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Four Winds Press, 1978)
- 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)
- Marcel the Pastry Chef, Illustrated by Gerald McDermott (Bantam Books, 1991)
- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ De Montreville, Doris, and Elizabeth D. Crawford. Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators. Wilson, 1978, pp. 257-259.
- ^ a b Marianna Mayer, biography from HarperCollins.com
- ^ 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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