I feel happier if I can live on the underside of a branch. when the first Poppins book came along, in 1934. But my publishers wouldn’t let me be Anon. all down through the ages as being one person. Most fairy tales are Anon., and many poems. “I think of myself as Anon.,” she said when the wind blew her our way in the lobby of the Algonquin the other morning. (for Pamela Lyndon) Travers and would rather not sign them at all. Does it take an elusive author to produce an elusive literary character? Mary Poppins, the magical, airborne slider- up-of-banisters and nanny who is the heroine of five children’s classics-“Mary Poppins,” “Mary Poppins Comes Back,” “Mary Poppins Opens the Door,” “Mary Poppins in the Park,” and “Mary Poppins from A to Z”-that have been translated into twelve languages, is the creation of a charming, curly-haired lady with a warm smile, a twinkling eye, a fleet foot, and a marked distaste for personal publicity who signs her books P.
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