British · b. 1946
Marina Warner writes about myth, fairy tale, and the female imagination. Her nonfiction—"Alone of All Her Sex," "From the Beast to the Blonde"—transformed how scholars think about the Virgin Mary and folk narrative. "The Lost Father" (1988), shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is a novel tracing a family across southern Italy. Warner bridges academic and popular writing with prose that treats ideas as adventures.