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Mary Downing Hahn
Mary Downing Hahn (born 1937) is an award winning American author of young adult novels. After graduating college, she worked as an art teacher, a college instructor, and a children's librarian in Prince George's Public Library System. She published her first novel, The Sara Summer, at the age of 4…
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Mary Downing Hahn (born 1937) is an award winning American author of young adult novels. After graduating college, she worked as an art teacher, a college instructor, and a children's librarian in Prince George's Public Library System. She published her first novel, The Sara Summer, at the age of 41. Since then, she has been a full-time writer. Her ghost story Wait till Helen Comes was the winner of 12 state children's book awards and she received the Scott O'Dell award for her World War II novel Stepping on the Cracks. She currently lives in Columbia, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography).
Books by this author
16 books in this view
The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Stories 2020 Guest 2019 The Girl in the Locked Room 2018 One for Sorrow 2017 Took 2015 
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall 2010 
Closed for the Season 2009 ★ 6.0/10 1 ratings 
All the Lovely Bad Ones 2008 
Deep and Dark and Dangerous 2007 
The Old Willis Place 2004 
Promised to the Dead 2000 
Look for Me by Moonlight 1995 AUTHOR CAREER
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