Maria Tatar, doctora por la Universidad de Princeton en 1971, dirige el Programa de Folclore y Mitología en la Universidad de Harvard. Entre sus obras figuran Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood y otros muchos libros sobre folclore y cuentos de hadas.
Maria Tatar, a Princeton University Ph.D. graduate in 1971, leads the Folklore and Mythology Program at Harvard University. Among her works are Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, and many other books on folklore and fairy tales.