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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