Lois Lowry

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Born:	March 20, 1937 Hawaii, United States
Occupation(s):	Novelist

Lois Lowry (born March 20, 1937) is an author of children's literature who has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice: first for Number the Stars in 1990, and again in 1994 for The Giver, her most famous and controversial work.

1 Biography
2 Books
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Lowry was born in Hawaii to an army family, who named her "Sena" for her Norwegian grandmother. Hearing of this, her grandmother telegraphed and instructed her parents that the child should have an American name.<ref>http://www.loislowry.com/pdf/Richmond_Speech.pdf</ref> Lois and Ann were the names of her father's sisters. She attended Brown University for two years until her marriage at 19 to a Naval officer, settling after a few years outside of Portland, ME She writes, "My children grew up in Maine. So did I. I returned to college at the University of Southern Maine, got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled stories and poems in notebooks."<ref>http://www.loislowry.com/bio.html</ref>

Lowry currently divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and her farmhouse in Maine.