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Lois Lowry |
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Lois Lowry |
| Lois Lowry was born March 20, 1937 in Hawaii. She was the middle of
three children, who “lived in a world of books”. Her father was an Army
dentist and the family lived all over the world. She lived in Japan when
she was 11 until she was 13 and she thought it gave her a better understanding
and appreciation of the world. She attended Brown University, but left
after her sophomore year to get married and raise a family of four children.
They settled in Maine, where she returned to college and received her degree
from the University of Southern Maine. Lois began writing in the mid-1970's.
She is divorced and lives in West Cambridge with her dog, Bandit, and spends
weekends in her 19th century farmhouse in New Hampshire. She loves gardening,
movies, travel, and writing.
Lois Lowry told Contemporary Authors that she measures her success as an author by her ability to "help adolescents answer their own questions about life, identity and human relationships." She has been honored twice with the Newbery Medal, the highest honor in children’s literature, for Number the Stars and The Giver. Of her own books, she likes Autumn Street and Rabble Starkey the best. She says she likes being a writer because “I love the people I meet: the children, writers, librarians, teachers, who all have the same interests I do. I love the process of putting words on a page, rearranging them, making them work somehow…”About her writing, she says: “My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems to me that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, is a fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells of the same things: the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings. The Giver takes place against the background of yet another very different culture and time. Though broader in scope than my earlier books, it nonetheless speaks to the same concern: the vital need for humans to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment.” |
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Anastasia Again! Anastasia at This Address Anastasia at Your Service. Anastasia on Her Own. Anastasia, Absolutely. Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst. Anastasia's Chosen Career. Attaboy, Sam! Autumn Street Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. The Giver. Number the Stars. One Hundredth Thing About Caroline. Rabble Starkey. See You Around Sam! Stay! Keeper’s Story A Summer to Die. Switcharound Taking Care of Terrific. Us and Uncle Fraud |
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