A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

After the war P. L. Travers returned to England. Barrie the author of the novel Peter Pan which bears many structural resemblances to Travers' own major work the Mary Poppins series. She died in London in 1996 aged 96 reportedly caused by epileptic seizure delirium.

In 1933 P. L. Travers began writing her series of children's novels about the mystical and magical English nanny Mary Poppins. Travers. In 1924 P. L. Travers emigrated to England where P. L. Travers wrote under the pen name P.