TALES AS OLD AS TIME
A Fairy Tale Collection
About Stacy
About the Collection
Stacy likes to say she is a "professional bookworm."
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Stacy double majored in Drama and English Literature for a BFA at NYU and returned to the school for a Master's in Literature with a concentration on Folklore in Popular Culture. She worked in various areas of the publishing industry before transitioning to entertainment.
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After starting in the Book Department at CAA, she worked in Drama Programming at HBO before establishing her company The Bookwoman and becoming a book and research consultant for television and film. She finds books to adapt for the screen, and has worked on various book adaptations through the development process.
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Stacy is a prize-winning rare book collector. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Book Club of California, is an avid consumer of trivia and popular culture, and a devoted dog mom to her bernedoodle Brontë. She is proud to share her fairy tale collection here.
Tales as Old as Time is a collection of fairy tales as "cultural and historical touchstones," those that communicate something about the time, place, and people they come from. The collection includes books, ephemera, artwork, fashion, and merchandise. Items span the 18th- through 21st centuries, and multiple countries and languages. There is a particular focus on fairy tales as women's stories.
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Most of all, the collection aims to show how fairy tales have influenced and connected people all over the world; many of these tales have existed for hundreds or even thousands of years, and continue to inspire, whether they're presented on page or stage or screen. Fairy tales are some of the first stories we teach children to begin instilling societal values. They often have simple narratives that are easily adapted alongside evolving cultural norms. They communicate something about the society from which the particular narrative emerged, and reading the stories in books from various places and times makes that apparent. To that end, the items in the collection could be seen as cultural artifacts.