Travers often said her famous character sought her out. Her last book, a collection of essays titled “What the Bee Knows,” which came closest to an autobiography, included her reflections on astrology, crop circles, reincarnation and journalists who ask “stupid” questions. She wrote and lectured widely on mythology and fairy tales. Travers later lived for a time with Navajos in the American West and studied Zen Buddhism. Known to her friends as Pamela, she explained to a Los Angeles Times reporter in 1970 that she used initials in her pen name because “so often very sentimental books are written by women, supposedly for children, and I didn’t want to be lumped together with those.”Īustralian newspapers and magazines began to publish her poems and articles while she was still in her teens, and for two years she wrote a human interest column for a daily newspaper. Pamela Lyndon Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Australia, of Irish parents.
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