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American writer (born 1937)

Lois Ann Lowry (;^[2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer.

Standards focus author biography lois lowry

She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences.

Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award.

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Many of her books have been challenged or even banned in some schools and libraries. The Giver, which is common in the curricula in some schools, has been prohibited in others.

Life

Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E.

Hammersberg.^[3][4]: xi Her maternal grandfather, Merkel Landis, a banker, created the Chris