Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar in 2018
Born	1945 (age 77–78) Pressath, Germany[1]
Nationality	American
Citizenship	US (naturalized 1956)[1]
Alma mater	Denison (B.A., 1967)[2] Princeton (Ph.D., 1971)
Occupation(s)	Academic, writer
Known for	Books on mythology and folklore
Spouse	Stephen A. Schuker ​ (div. 1989)​
Children	Lauren Schuker (daughter) Daniel Schuker (son)[3]

Maria Magdalene Tatar (born May 13, 1945)^[1] is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore.^[4][5] She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.^[5]

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Biography

Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany.^[1] Her family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child.^[7]

She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.^[3]

Tatar earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University and a doctoral degree from Princeton University.^[3][8] In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978.^[3] She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected works

• Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1978) ISBN 978-0-691-06377-5
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Princeton, 1987) ISBN 978-0-691-06722-3
• Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Princeton, 1993) ISBN 978-0-691-06943-2
• The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002) ISBN 978-0-393-05163-6
• The Annotated Brothers Grimm (W.W. Norton, 2004) ISBN 0-393-05848-4
• The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W.W. Norton, 2008) ISBN 978-0-393-06081-2
• Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (W.W. Norton, April 2009)^[9] ISBN 978-0-393-06601-2
• "From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters: Why Children Read" (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Summer 2009, vol.43, no.2, p. 19-36) ISSN 0021-8510
• The Annotated Peter Pan, ed., (W.W. Norton, 2011) ISBN 978-0-393-06600-5
• The Annotated African American Folktales, ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr., (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2017), ISBN 0-87140-753-1
• The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters, (Harvard University Press, 2020) ISBN 978-0-674-238-602
• The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 2021), ISBN 978-1-631-49881-7