Or have the main character time travel out of trouble. But with my entertainments, that is not only possible but demanded." Happy endings
are possible in such books, as well as time travel, witches, and even a vampire. Among such entertainments, Hahn places
The Time of the Witch, Wait Till Helen Comes, The Doll in the Garden, Time for Andrew, and
Look for Me by Moonlight. Other entertainments include a popular book for male readers,
The Dead Man in Indian Creek, and a western adventure,
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli, in which Hahn was finally able to indulge her own childhood fantasies of running off to the Wild West.
A Childhood in Maryland
Hahn was born on December 9, 1937, in Washington, D.C., the first child of Anna Elisabeth Sherwood Downing and Kenneth Ernest Downing. She spent most of her childhood in College Park, Maryland, "a wonderful place to grow up," as she typified it in her AAYA interview. "The University of Maryland is located there, so the town was a mix of working class people and professionals. It was the sort of place where kids could go off on their own in complete safety.
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