Ann Downer
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1960 –
Who is Ann Downer?
Ann Downer is an American writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and young adults, as well as short fiction and poetry.
Ann Downer was born in Arlington, Virginia in 1960 and grew up in Manila and Bangkok and recalls avidly reading fantasy fiction.
Her first published work was a trilogy published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, collected in a revised edition in 1995 as The Spellkey Trilogy. A second series for middle-grade readers, begun in 2003 with the novel Hatching Magic, continues with The Dragon of Never-Was. The Spellkey series is high fantasy, taking place wholly in an invented world and chronicling a good-versus-evil story of two foundlings, a stableboy and an ostracized seer. Hatching Magic and its sequel, The Dragon of Never-Was, are contemporary fantasies with elements of time travel. The series follows a young girl, Theodora Oglethorpe, as she discovers a world of wizardry and magic. While Downer’s books are frequently compared to the work of Patricia A. McKillip and Diana Wynne Jones, she has cited the influence of Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea books and the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander in shaping her outlook and prose style.
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