The London home of P.L. Travers, creator of iconic children’s book character Mary Poppins, hit the market last month for £4.85 million. Tucked away in an exclusive west London enclave, the terraced ...

For 60 years, generations of families have had spoonfuls of sugar, dancing penguins and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious delightfully woven into their lives, thanks ...

The original Mary Poppins was not as "saccharine" as the movie character, says Lawson, and her bittersweet biography of the supernanny's elusive creator, Travers (1899–1996), convincingly portrays a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaking of the meeting, Travers reportedly said that talking to Disney was "like talking to a friendly, charming uncle who took ...

Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (/ˈtrævərs/; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-English writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary ...

P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

Tom Hanks, director John Lee Hancock and Emma Thompson discuss bringing P.L. Travers to the big screen. The actress portrays the British novelist in Walt Disney's new comedy due out for limited ...