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Dec 7, 2013

‘Helen Lyndon Goff had two fathers. One was real. The other was imagined. The traces of both men can be found in a third father, the completely fictional George Banks.’

“Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers”

by Valerie Lawson

Simon & Schuster, 361 pages, $16

About the Author

A native of Cobb County, Holly Steel is a University of Georgia graduate and has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999.

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