She was born 28 August 1908 as Mária Pullmanová in Blatnica (central Slovakia). She attended school in Martin and in Stará Pazova (Serbia), completing her secondary education at the Commercial school in Martin (1925). She worked at the Institute of Culture and Adult Education (Osvetový ústav) in Bratislava and from 1926 as a secretary in a sanatorium in Nový Smokovec. From 1929 to 1930 she studied French in Paris. Together with her doctor husband she lived at Štrbské Pleso in the High Tatras until 1956. The following two years she worked in the publishing house Osveta in Martin and from 1959 to 1973 in Bratislava in the publishing house Mladé letá, specialising in books for children and young people. From 1973 she lived in retirement. She died on 17 July, 1995, and is buried in the National Cemetery in Martin, the cultural centre of Slovakia.
