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| Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937. She was born in the middle of three children. She has a little brother named Jon. He had a lot in common with their dad. She also had an older sister named Helen. She was a lot like their mother. But she passed away young. Lois was usually alone and that's how she liked it. She was a very solitary child. She dreamed about being a writer since she was very young. Her father was an army dentist, so she lived her childhood all over the world. Lois moved from Hawaii to New York. She spent the years of World War Two in Tokyo, Japan and moved back to New York City for High School. She went to Brown University in Rhode Island while her family lived in Washington D.C. She got married very young. She was nineteen when she married a Naval Officer. Her husband soon quit the Navy and went to Harvard Law School. During that time, they had four children (two girls and two boys) who grew up in Maine. Lois than went back to school at the University of Southern Maine. She soon got her degree, went to graduate school, and finally started writing professionally. Her marriage ended in 1977, which was when she was forty. Her first book was called "A Summer to Die." It is based on the early death of her sister, Helen. Her older son was a fighter pilot who died while in battle. Lois is now trying to stop some of those problems in the world. Today, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has four grandchildren. Some of her books include: "A Summer to Die", "Stay! Keeper's Story", "Number the Stars", "The Giver", "Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye", "Autumn Street", "Rabble Starkey", "Zooman Sam", and the Anastasia Krupnik Series. Lois Lowry is a two time Newbery Award winner for "The Giver"(1994) and "Number the Stars"(1990). She is also the winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book for "Rabble Starkey"(1987) and the American Library Association Notable Book was her book "Autumn Street"(1980). |
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