ABOUT THE EDITOR
AND TRANSLATORS

Maria Tatar is the author of The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, and Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Seven Wives. She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and served as Dean for the Humanities at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on folklore, German culture, and children’s literature.

Julie K. Allen is an assistant professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and has spent several years living and working in Denmark. She enjoys telling Andersen’s tales to her three children.