Maria Tatar has put together a truly beautiful book. A Harvard professor of Germanic literatures, author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1987) and Off With Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and ...

When Robert Weil, the editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, approached Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar with the idea of putting together “The Annotated African American Folktales ...

Maria Tatar, chair of Folklore and Mythology and the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, is editor of *The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales*. The author of ...

A groundbreaking collection of African-American folktales is out. We’ll turn the pages with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and folklore scholar Maria Tatar. Henry Louis Gates Jr. And Maria Tatar Share ...

Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...