Lois Lowry
Geboren: March 20, 1937 – Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Lois Lowry is an American author of children’s and young adult fiction known for exploring memory, loss, identity, and moral choice. Her notable books include The Giver and Number the Stars. She has written more than 50 books and won two Newbery Medals, a rare distinction in children’s literature.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, the middle of three children in a family shaped by military movement and books. Her father was an Army dentist, so her childhood stretched across New York, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Tokyo, experiences that later gave her fiction an unusual mix of dislocation, observation, and historical awareness. She entered Brown University in 1954, left after her sophomore year to marry a naval officer, and spent her early adult life raising four children while moving from state to state. A decisive turning point came when she returned to school in Maine, earned a degree in English literature from the University of Southern Maine in 1972, worked as a freelance journalist, and finally moved toward the profession she had imagined since childhood. The death of her sister Helen became the emotional source for her first novel, A Summer to Die, published in 1977. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lois-Lowry))
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"But Lois Lowry is now one of the leading voices in children's literature"
— The Washington Post
"Long before The Hunger Games, Lois Lowry's The Giver 'invented the contemporary young-adult dystopian novel,' said Robin Wasserman"
— The Week
"Thirty years after its publication, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry remains one of the best literary introductions to the Holocaust for children"
— The Horn Book
"The marvelously versatile Lois Lowry is the author of more than 40 books for children and young adults"
— School Library Journal
"Perhaps best known for her novel The Giver, Lois Lowry was writing about utopias and dystopias well before the era of The Hunger Games"
— ALAN Review
"Lois Lowry has been selected as the 2007 Margaret A. Edwards Award recipient for her outstanding contribution to teen literature"
— YALSA
"Lois Lowry, who casts her noble and enviable shadow wide across the landscape of children's literature, here turns her quick, sly gaze to parody"
— Publishers Weekly
"We are thrilled to honor Lois Lowry, who has made a brilliant and lasting contribution to the field of children's literature"
— Carol Edwards
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