Lois Lowry

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Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg on March 20, 1937) is an American writer.

Lowry, a novelist, is known for writing about a difficult topic in children's books.

Among other controversial topics, she has investigated racism, terminal illness, assassination, and the Holocaust.

In addition, she has delved into contentious topics such as in The Giver Quartet.

Her writing on such topics has earned her both praise and skepticism.

Since its debut in 1993, The Giver (the first book in the Quartet) has received a variety of reactions from schools around the country; some schools have adopted it as part of the compulsory curriculum, while others have banned the book from being included in classroom studies. Lowry has received two Newbery Awards: for Number the Stars in 1990 and 1994, as well as The Giver.

The 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award went to Gooney Bird Greene.

In 2014, The Giver's film version was released in the United States, as a finalist and a winner in the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest award available to children's books.

The American Library Association's Margaret Edwards Award in 2007 for her teen writing.

In 2011, she delivered the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture; her talk was titled "UNLEAVING: The Staying Power of Gold."

Brown University also awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2014.

Life

Lowry was born on March 20, 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii's Territory, to Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg is a film about a man who was a teenager in the United States. xi Lowry's maternal grandfather, Merkel Landis, a banker, in 1910, named her "Cena" for her Norwegian grandmother, but her grandmother telegraphed and told Lowry's parents that the child should have an American name.

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Lowry was the middle child. Helen is her older sister and Jon is her younger brother. Helen died of cancer in 1962, but Lowry and her brother still have a close friendship.

Lowry's father was an army dentist whose career took the family all over the United States and into several parts of the world. In 1939, Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to Brooklyn, New York, where Lowry was two years old. When Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during World War II, they migrated in 1942 to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Lowry began reading at three years old, allowing her to skip the first grade when she first began training in Carlisle at age six.

Lowry and her family migrated to Tokyo, Japan, where her father was stationed from 1948 to 1950, following World War II. Lowry attended seventh and eighth grades at The American School in Japan, a school for dependents of those serving in the military. She returned to the United States to attend high school. Lowry and her family lived in Carlisle, 1950, where she attended freshman high school before heading to Governors Island, New York, where Lowry attended Curtis High School on Staten Island. She attended high school at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights, New York, from 1952 to 1954. xi Theresa Grey Lowry attended Pembroke College, which later merged with Brown University in 1971.

Lowry married Donald Grey Lowry, a US Navy officer, in 1956 and left the school in 1956. The couple have travelled from San Diego to New London, Connecticut, to Key West to Cambridge, Maine. Alix and Kristin's two children, as well as two sons, Donald Grey and Benjamin, were born.

Lowry obtained her degree in English literature at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, while raising her children. She earned her B.A. after attending the university to pursue graduate studies.

Lowry's first book, A Summer to Die, was released in 1977, 40 years old. She and Donald Lowry divorced in the same year as well. She met Martin Small and was in a long-term friendship with him before his death in 2011. She is in a relationship with Howard Corwin, a retired physician, as of 2021.

In the 1995 crash of Lowry's fighter plane, Grey, a USAF major and flight instructor, was killed. Lowry acknowledged that it was the most difficult day of her life, but she continued, "His death in the cockpit of a warplane took away a piece of my world." "I left him wanting to thank him by joining the scores of others struggling to find a way to end conflict on this extremely fragile planet."

Lowry also has properties in Massachusetts and Maine as of 2021, and she continues to be an active writer and speaker.

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Writing career

Lowry first began her career as a freelance journalist. In the 1970s, she submitted a short story to Redbook magazine, which was intended for adult audiences but written from a child's perspective. An editor working at Houghton Mifflin then suggested to Lowry that she should write a children's book. Lowry agreed and wrote her first book A Summer to Die, which was later published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977 when she was 40 years old. The book featured the theme of terminal illness, which is based on Lowry's own experiences with her sister Helen.

Lowry continued to write about difficult topics in her next publication, Autumn Street (1979), which explores themes of coping with racism, grief, and fear at a young age. The novel is told from the perspective of a young girl who is sent to live with her grandfather during World War II, which is also based on her own experiences of having her father deployed during World War II. Of all the books she has published, Autumn Street is considered to be her most autobiographical.

In the same year of publishing Autumn Street, Lowry also published her novel Anastasia Krupnik, the first installment in the Anastasia series. The series, which touches on serious themes with a humorous approach, continued through to 1995.

Lowry published Number the Stars in 1989, which book received multiple awards, including the 1990 Newbery medal. Lowry received another Newbery medal in 1994, for The Giver (1993). After publishing The Giver, she went on to publish another three companion novels which take place in the same universe: Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004) and finally Son (2012), which tied all three of the previous books together. Collectively, they are referred to as The Giver Quartet. The New York Times described the quartet as "less a speculative fiction than a kind of guide for teaching children (and their parents, if they're listening carefully) how to be a good person."

In early 2020, she released a book of poetry, called On the Horizon, charting her childhood memories of life in Hawaii and Tokyo, and the lives lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Hiroshima.

During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the American publishing company Scholastic Corporation asked Lowry to write a new introduction to Like the Willow Tree, a story of a young girl living in Portland, Maine who was orphaned during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. The book was first published in 2011, before being reissued by Scholastic in September 2020.

Throughout her works, Lowry has explored several complex issues including racism, terminal illness, murder, the Holocaust, and the questioning of authority, among other challenging topics. Her writing on such matters has accumulated both praise and criticism. The Chicago Tribune has said a theme running through all of her work is "the importance of human connections."

By 2000, eight of her books had been challenged in schools and libraries in the United States. In particular, The Giver (the first novel in The Giver Quartet) received a diversity of reactions from schools in America after its release in 1993. While some schools adopted it as a part of the mandatory curriculum, others prohibited the book's inclusion in their classroom studies. According to the New York Times in 2012, The Giver had been perennially near the top of the America Library Association's list of banned and challenged books since its publication. In a 2012 review of Son, the New York Times said the 1993 publication of The Giver had "shocked adult and child sensibilities alike". In 2020, Time magazine described The Giver as "a staple of both middle school curricular and banned book lists."

According to biographer Joel Chaston, Lowry's most critically acclaimed works are Rabble Starkey, Number the Stars, and The Giver.: x

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