Pamela Lyndon Travers (August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996), born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, was the author of Mary Poppins and student of G. I. Gurdjieff. Both a published poet and a novelist, she knew W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. She preferred to be called P. L. Travers.

Books by P. L. Travers

Mary Poppins books

• Mary Poppins (1934)
• Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)
• Mary Poppins in the Park (1935)
• Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
• Gingerbread Shop (1952)
• Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party (1952)
• The Magic Compass (1953)
• Mary Poppins From A-Z (1962)
• Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975)
• Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
• Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988)

Novels

• I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941)
• Fox at the Manger (1962)
• Friend Monkey (1971)
• About the Sleeping Beauty (1975)
• Two Pairs of Shoes (1976)

Collections

• Stories from Mary Poppin (1952)
• Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1999)
• Mary Poppins Omnibooks (1999)

Non-fiction

• What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story (1989)

Books on P. L. Travers

A Lively Oracle: a Centennial Celebration of P. L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, editors. (New York: Larson Publications, 1999).

External links

• Gurdjieff by P.L. Travers, from Man, Myth and Magic: Encyclopedia of the Supernatural 12 vol., (London: Purnell, 1970-1971) reprinted on the International Gurdjieff Review web site.

• Finding aid to Papers of P. L. Travers in State Library of New South Wales (pdf file).