P.L. Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers is credited for creating the character of Mary Poppins. Travers was born in 1899 and was an Australian novelist and journalist. The famous writer was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Queensland, Austrailia to Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes.
Travers began her writing career when she was just a teenager. She even wrote for The Bulletin and Triad. She also gain a repretation as an actress and toured Austrailia and New Zealand with a Shakesperean touring company. It was during this time she decided to write under the pen name of P.L. Travers.
The 1934 publication of Mary Poppins was Travers first major success as a writer. Her character of Mary Poppins was found in five sequels. Travers also published a number of other novels, poems, and non-fiction works.
Disney produced the widely famous film of Mary Poppins in 1964. Travers had major arguments with her series of stories being made into a Disney film. She eventually stated when she was approached with a proposal of Mary Poppins being made into a stage musical that no Americans or members of the Mary Poppins film production were to be involved in the process.
Travers never married, but adopted a boy when she was in her mid thirties. P.L. Travers passed away in London in 1996.