Marina Warner

Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism, and history. Her award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, From the Beast to the Blonde, and No Go the Bogeyman. In 2006 she published Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media, a study of ghosts, phantasms, and technology. Her most recent work of fiction is the novel The Leto Bundle. A Fellow of the British Academy, she is also Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.

From the Review

July 17, 2008: Rapunzel, Parsley & Pregnancy (letter)

November 18, 2004: Eckhout in Brazil (letter)

From New York Review Books

The Secret Commonwealth The legendary chronicle of the supernatural that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature.