Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor of Folklore and Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Emerita, at Harvard University. Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows, she is the author of The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives (Princeton), The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Princeton), and other books.