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Who Is Lois Lowry/

Author Lois Lowry published her first novel, A Summer to Die, in 1977. After this serious drama, Lowry showed her lighter side with 1979's Anastasia Krupnik, which became the first in a series of humorous books.

She won her first Newbery Award for the 1989 novel Number the Stars. In 1993, Lowry received the honor a second time for The Giver, which would eventually become a 2014 film.

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More recent works include Son (2012) and Gooney Bird and All Her Charms (2013).

Early Life

Born Lois Ann Hammersberg on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Lowry is one of America's most popular and versatile children's book authors. She has written in a variety of fictional forms, from the WWII tale Number the Stars to the lighthearted adventures of Anastasia Krupnik to the fantastical The Giver.

A shy and introverted child, Lowry loved to read.

She was around 8 or 9 years old when she decided she wanted to be a writer. Her father was a d