![]() ![]() And then I decided to start writing a book, at the age of nine." She published her first book at the age of nineteen. My sister and I put on plays made up from my stories. "I liked to tell stories with pictures and compose music. "It seems to me there was never a time when I didn't want to be an artist, " she says. Though widely known as a children's book writer, Marianna Mayer's early education focused on visual art. And, much as an oyster must be disturbed by a grain of sand in order for the pearl to be created, I often choose to retell stories in which I find unresolved fragments that are somehow perplexing to me." "They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can all relate to, regardless of age or culture. ![]() "I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories," says Marianna Mayer. Marianna Mayer lives in Roxbury, Connecticut. ![]()
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