• Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (/ˈtrævərz/ TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career...
  • In 1999, author Valerie Lawson released a biography on Travers entitled Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers, which excavated the details of her...
  • P.L. Travers was born on 9 August 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.
  • By then publishing as P.L. Travers in a variety of Australian publications, she decamped to England in 1924.
  • I once asked Travers what she thought about the Disney film, and she replied obliquely: “When I left the theater, I was weeping.”
  • Travers, best known as the author of Mary Poppins, was actually born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia in August 1899.
  • P. L. Travers published seven more books of the Mary Poppins series over the years after the massive success of the first book.
  • Pamela Lyndon Travers, better known as P. L. Travers, (born Helen Lyndon Goff, August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996) was an Australian-born British author who is best known...
  • Pamela Lyndon Travers created the beloved Mary Poppins (1934), the first book in the series in which an English nanny provides magical escapes for her...
  • Russell introduced Travers to Irish poet William Butler Yeats and to other Irish literary figures who drew on Ireland's mythical past in their works.