Maria Tatar

children = Lauren Schuker (daughter)Daniel Schuker (son) 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.

Biography Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany.

She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963. In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978. "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) The Annotated African American Folktales, ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr., (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2017), The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters, (Harvard University Press, 2020) The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 2021),