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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pamela Lyndon
Travers OBE (9 August 1899 - 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist,
actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of
children's novels about the mystical and magical nanny Mary Poppins. Her
popular series has been adapted many times, including in the 1964 film
starring Julie Andrews, and in the new and extremely popular Broadway
musical which originally was produced in London's West End. Travers
began publishing her poems while still a teenager and wrote for The
Bulletin and Triad while also gaining a reputation as an actress. She
toured Australia and New Zealand with a Shakespearean touring company
before leaving for England in 1924. There she dedicated herself to
writing under the pen name P. L. Travers (the initials were used to
disguise a woman's name). Travers also greatly admired and emulated J.M.
Barrie, the writer most famous for authoring Peter Pan, which bears many
structural resemblances to Travers' own greatest works, the Mary Poppins
series.
