Waking in the middle of the night, I saw a man in nineteenth-century clothing standing at the bureau with his back to me, emptying his pockets of loose change.
When he turned and saw me, he gave me a frightened look and ran from the room. The owner told me she had long believed the house was haunted. AL: You have said that your early childhood was a difficult time. How did this time period affect your writing? Do any of your own experiences show up in your books? Hahn: Until I was old enough to go to school, I was left in the care of a less than kindly grandmother who frightened me with her superstitious beliefs, most of which had to do with dying.
She was of a deep and dark melancholic disposition, and by the time I was six years old, she had become increasingly senile. I confess that every scary old person in my books is my grandmother in some disguise or other.
AL: After writing more than two dozen books, is there anything that still challenges you as a writer? Hahn: Every new book is a challenge from start to finish. Or funny. Or exciting. Before settling down, she took a summer to visit Europe with her girlfriends in an old-fashioned VW bug with a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day as a guide. They had a wonderful time. After she was married, she taught art for a year at a junior high school, but she didn't like being an authority figure to the children.
She and her husband soon had two daughters. For a while, she stayed at home with them. She loved aloud to read to them and began to make up stories to keep them entertained. When she and her husband divorced, the girls were still small. There's some of the pain from the divorce and another visit from a frightening grandmother figure reflected in her book, The Time of the Witch. After the breakup, she went back to school to get her Ph. While there, Mary became more interested in children's literature and took a job as a children's library assistant.
Instead of working on her dissertation, she finished her first novel, The Sara Summer. This first book had a lot of the elements you would find in her later works: pre-teens in serious trouble who are lucky to have found good friends. Mary remarried in to Norman Pearce Jacob, a librarian.
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