Mary Downing Hahn
Mary Downing Hahn | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1979 - present |
| Genre | Children's and Young Adult Literature |
Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9, 1937, in Washington D.C.)[1] is an award winning[2] American author of young adult novels.
Mary Downing Hahn's first published book, The Sara Summer, was released in 1979, when she was forty-one years old.[2] Since then she has written over twenty novels. Many of those novels take place in Maryland, a state in which she grew up and still lives in.[1][3]
Early life
tit Mary Downing Hahn grew up in College Park, Marylandnot . In elementary school, she was an artist. She loved reading and drawing, but hated writing. However, she loved to tell stories, but as a young girl she told the stories through pictures. By junior high, she wanted to create more intricate stories and that is when she started writing, along with illustrating. She wrote her first book called, Small Town Life, during this time. She never finished it, but she continued writing. In high school, she did this by writing in a journal. In college, she created poetry with the hopes of being published in The New Yorker. Unfortunately, she lacked the confidence to send anything in to them.[2]
Professional Life
She was a children's librarian[3] before she decided to write and release her first book, The Sara Summer. After writing The Sara Summer, she started averaging one book a year.[2] To date, she has released many renowned novels for children, including winning the Scott O'Dell award for the book Stepping on the Cracks.[3]
Selected bibliography (alphabetical)
- All the Lovely Bad Ones (2008)
- Anna All Year Round (1954)
- Anna on the Farm (2001)
- Appointment with a Stranger
- As Ever, Gordy (1998)
- Closed for the Season (2009)
- Daphne's Book (1983)
- The Dead Man in Indian Creek (1990)
- December Stillness (1988)
- Deep and Dark and Dangerous (2007)
- The Doll in the Garden (1989)
- Following My Own Footsteps (1996)
- Following the Mystery Man (1988)(great suspence book)
- The Gentleman Outlaw and Me, Eli: A Story of the Old West (1996)
- Hear the Wind Blow (2003)
- Janey and the Famous Author (2005)
- The Jellyfish Season (1985)
- Look For Me By Moonlight (1995)
- The Old Willis Place (2004)
- Promises to the Dead (2000)
- The Sara Summer (1979)
- The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster (1991)
- Stepping on the Cracks (1991)
- Tallahassee Higgins (1987)
- Time For Andrew (1994)
- The Time of the Witch (1982)
- Wait Till Helen Comes (1986)
- Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story(2005)(
- The Wind Blows Backward (1993)
- Witch Catcher (2006)
References
- ^ a b "BookRag's Mary Downing Hahn Biography". bookrags.com.
- ^ a b c d "The Children's Book Guild of Washington DC's Member Page for Mary Downing Hahn". childrensbookguild.org.
- ^ a b c "Mary Downing Hahn". Scholastic.com. Retrieved March 27, 2009.