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Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, honor of her grandma. She has a
and is still alive to this day, she is husband named Donal Grey Lowry.

currently 84 years old. She was born in Robert and Katharine Hammersberg
Honolulu, Hawaii. She lived in New York are

until the start of World War II. She also her parents and she has 2 siblings.
lived in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for a short She has had 4 children as well. She

while. She went to Franklin School for currently lives in
Elementary, then went to Brown Cambridge, Massachusetts with her

University and a university in Southern pets. She is a great children’s author
Maine. She was a very shy kid growing up and is very well known. She is a

and always wanted to be a writer ever diverse author as anyone can pick up

since she was a young child. her book and start reading and be
deeply invested in them.

She published her first book in 1977 -Nityaa Shrestha
called “A summer to Die “, which is a VB

story about her sister’s death. “The
Giver” is her most popular book and was

inspired by her dad’s memory loss.“The
Giver” even has a film made about it. She

has written over 30 books in her career.
Not all her books are like this as she is

an author that has written a pretty
diverse genre of books, she has

lighthearted stories about a middle
schooler facing everyday problems and

very sad and deep novels.

Some facts about her are that a lot of

tragedies happened in her own life hence
leading to her books which also have a

lot of tragedies in them. Lois was
originally going to be named “Cena” in