Mary Downing Hahn
 Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9 1937) is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book The Sara Summer was released in 1979 when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels. Many of those novels take place in Maryland a state in which she grew up and in which she still lives.Mary Downing Hahn speakingI grew up in a small shingled house down at the end of Guilford Road in College Park Maryland.