Author study:Lois Lowry

Natalya Roberts

Biography: Authors background

Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in
Honolulu, Hawaii. She won her first Newbery Award
for the 1989 novel Number the Stars.She was born
as Lois Ann Hammersberg. Lois Lowry is one of
America's most popular children's book authors. As
a shy and introverted child, Lowry loved to read.
She was about 8 or 9 years old when she decided
she wanted to be a writer. (Biography.com).

Popular books written by Lois Lowry

A summer to Die: 1977
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry tells the story of thirteen-year-old Meg
Chalmers whose whole life is turned upside down when her parents,
Charles and Lydia Chalmers, tell her and her fifteen-year-old sister, Molly,
that they will be closing up their family home in the small New England
town where they live and moving to a country farmhouse.
(Biography.com)

Popular books written by Lois Lowry

Number the Stars: Written in 1989
As the German troops to begin their campaign to relocate all the Jews
of Denmark, Annemarie Johansens family takes I'm Annemarie's best
friend Ellen Rose, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the
eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish resistance
smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven
thousand, across the sea to Sweden. (Biography.com)

Popular books written by Lois Lowry

The Silent Boy: Written in 2003
The story is told by Katy Thatcher, an old woman in 1987. Katy, whose
father is a doctor, takes an interest in Jacob, a boy from a neighboring
farm, who can't speak, who sings quietly to himself, but who seems able
to communicate with animals. Katy comes to feel she can communicate
with him in a rudimentary but sympathetic way.
When the live-in housekeeper next door, sister to the Thatcher's
housekeeper, has a baby out of wedlock, Jacob, aware of the trouble,
abducts and brings the baby to the Thatcher's house on a stormy night,
hoping, Katy believes, to save it the way he has saved orphaned lambs
by bringing them to a substitute mother. But the baby dies of exposure
and Jacob is taken to a mental institution. Katy becomes a doctor.
(Biography.com)

Popular books written by Lois Lowry

The Giver: Written in 1993
A boy named Jonas lives in a very strict society. When he is given his
new assignment it is more than he bargains for. Jonas begins getting
memories of the past that he cannot share with anyone.
(Biography.com)

Awards Received
John Newbery Medal:The Giver,Number the Stars
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award:Number the Stars
Regina Medal
Golden Kite Award for Fiction:Rabble Starky
Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers Literature
National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature:Number the Stars
(Biography.com)

MLA Source
Biography.com Editors. Lois Lowry Biography. Bio.com A&E Networks
Televison, N.D. web. 16 Nov. 2016.