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# Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

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Review: Great follow up to the movie Saving Mr. Banks - I really enjoyed this book and was a great follow up to the movie Saving Mr. Banks. Very easy to read and lots of additional interesting facts. I read the first book in the Mary Poppins series as well. I really enjoyed it all as well as the Walt Disney Mary Poppins movie.
Review: STILL AN ENIGMA - Valerie Lawson has done something P. L. Travers claimed she didn't want anyone to do: write her biography. It's a very good book. Travers discouraged personal questions in interviews, and preferred to discuss her work and, in later years, her philosophy of life -- the essence of experience as opposed to the mundane details of living. Lawson makes the case that if Travers had been serious about this she would have destroyed her papers -- which she decidedly did not do. Whatever her true feelings on the matter, this is a fascinating book, filled with insights into Travers' life and work, and with a respectable amount of attention to the work itself, especially the meanings and importance of the Mary Poppins books. I think Lawson gives somewhat short shrift to Travers work with Parabola magazine, which is some of her most brilliant writing -- inspiring to thousands of her readers, and collected in the now out of print "What the Bee Knows." (Note to publishers: bring it back!) You may also find out more than you want to known about her endless toing and froing with Disney, and the ways in which the movie deal echoed through the last thirty years of her life. But Lawson also gives the first comprehensive account of Travers' private life, her involvement AE and Gurdieff, her adoption of one twin, her son Camillus, and her early career as an actress. Her love affairs are touched on. I'm not sure, in the end, if all the private matters, interesting as they may be, really add to our understanding of Travers' work, though Lawson makes some persuasive connections between the fantasy and the reality. Mary Poppins herself, the Great Exception, survives the biography with her mystery intact, and in spite of Lawson's sympathetic and thorough craftsmanship, so does Travers. For those of us lucky ones who count Travers as a touchstone in our lives, that's just fine. Questions without answers can often be more satisfying than the other kind.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #767,076 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,409 in Author Biographies #2,336 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies #3,079 in Women's Biographies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 379 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great follow up to the movie Saving Mr. Banks
*by H***A on May 20, 2014*

I really enjoyed this book and was a great follow up to the movie Saving Mr. Banks. Very easy to read and lots of additional interesting facts. I read the first book in the Mary Poppins series as well. I really enjoyed it all as well as the Walt Disney Mary Poppins movie.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ STILL AN ENIGMA
*by M***N on October 17, 2006*

Valerie Lawson has done something P. L. Travers claimed she didn't want anyone to do: write her biography. It's a very good book. Travers discouraged personal questions in interviews, and preferred to discuss her work and, in later years, her philosophy of life -- the essence of experience as opposed to the mundane details of living. Lawson makes the case that if Travers had been serious about this she would have destroyed her papers -- which she decidedly did not do. Whatever her true feelings on the matter, this is a fascinating book, filled with insights into Travers' life and work, and with a respectable amount of attention to the work itself, especially the meanings and importance of the Mary Poppins books. I think Lawson gives somewhat short shrift to Travers work with Parabola magazine, which is some of her most brilliant writing -- inspiring to thousands of her readers, and collected in the now out of print "What the Bee Knows." (Note to publishers: bring it back!) You may also find out more than you want to known about her endless toing and froing with Disney, and the ways in which the movie deal echoed through the last thirty years of her life. But Lawson also gives the first comprehensive account of Travers' private life, her involvement AE and Gurdieff, her adoption of one twin, her son Camillus, and her early career as an actress. Her love affairs are touched on. I'm not sure, in the end, if all the private matters, interesting as they may be, really add to our understanding of Travers' work, though Lawson makes some persuasive connections between the fantasy and the reality. Mary Poppins herself, the Great Exception, survives the biography with her mystery intact, and in spite of Lawson's sympathetic and thorough craftsmanship, so does Travers. For those of us lucky ones who count Travers as a touchstone in our lives, that's just fine. Questions without answers can often be more satisfying than the other kind.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Not my favorite bio
*by A***N on January 28, 2014*

OF course it was the recent movie that inspired me to learn about P.L. Travers. She was interesting, very bright, and eccentric. Unfortunately, the book is a bit tedious. Most of her friends, intellectual and otherwise, were people I'd never heard of even though in their day they might have been well-known. I got tired reading about her spiritual quests that lasted throughout her life. A great biographer writes a great story that draws you in. Valerie Lawson does not fall into the great category. I do remain grateful to P.L. Travers for dreaming up Mary Poppins and all the wonderful stories around her.

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