Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry was born Lois Ann Hammersberg in 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father was a United States Army dentist, and the family moved often: to Brooklyn, to her mother's hometown of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the Second World War, and later to Tokyo, Japan, where she attended the American School in Japan. She learned to read at three and dreamed of becoming a writer. She studied at Brown University, married a Navy officer, and raised a family before finishing her degree at the University of Southern Maine. She began her career writing for magazines and as a photographer, and her first novel, A Summer to Die, appeared in 1977. She went on to write many books for young readers, including the comic Anastasia series. Number the Stars (1989), about a Danish girl who helps her Jewish friend escape the Nazis, won the Newbery Medal in 1990. The Giver (1993), about a boy in a controlled future community who discovers the memories it has suppressed, won the Newbery Medal in 1994 and was followed by three companion novels.

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