Charlotte Craft

Charlotte Craft, also credited as M. Charlotte Craft, is a children's author known for retellings of classical myth for young readers. She studied comparative literature at Columbia University and afterwards lived in Japan, where she worked as an interpreter and photographer. Her picture books include Cupid and Psyche and King Midas and the Golden Touch, a retelling of the Greek myth that acknowledges Nathaniel Hawthorne's earlier version as its inspiration. Both were illustrated by her mother, the painter Kinuko Y. Craft. She lives in Scotland with her family.