Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9, 1937) is an American writer of young adult novels and a former school librarian.
She is known for books such as Stepping On The Cracks and Wait Till Helen Comes.
[4] The daughter of Kenneth Ernest Downing (an automobile mechanic) and Anna Elisabeth Sherwood (a teacher), Mary Downing married William E. Hahn on October 7, 1961.
She married, secondly, to Norman Pearce Jacob (a librarian) on April 23, 1982.
Wait Till Helen Comes (1986) The Doll in the Garden (1989) The Dead Man In Indian Creek (1990) Stepping on the Cracks (1991) Time for Andrew (1994) The Gentleman Outlaw and Me—Eli (1996) The Old Willis Place (2004) Witch Catcher (2006) Deep and Dark and Dangerous (2007) Closed for the Season (2009) This United States biographical article is a stub.