Lois Lowry

Biography

• Born in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Father was an army officer
• Spent her elementary school years in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
• During the summer of her sixth grade Lois Lowry and her family moved to Tokyo with her dad and completed her 7th and 8th grade years.
• Returned to New York, and finished high school.
• Went to Brown University in Rhode Island while her family was living in Washington D.C.
• Has an older sister named Helen and a younger brother named Jon.

Events

• Dropped out of Graduate school and married Donald Lowry in 1956.
• In 1958, while living in Connecticut where her daughter Alix is born.
• In 1959, while living in Florida her son was born.
• Another daughter and son were born in Cambridge Massachusetts.
• In 1962, Lois's sister died from cancer.
• Lois Lowry received her degree from the University of Southern Maine in 1972.
• Divorced in 1977.
• Lois received the first Newbery Medal for Number the Stars in 1990.
• Lois received another medal for The Giver in 1994.

Publications

• 1977: A Summer to Die
• 1989: Number the Stars
• 1993: The Giver
• 2000: Gathering Blue

References

• All About Adolescent Literacy. (n.d.). Retrieved November 22, 2019, from http://www.adlit.org/transcript_display/3802/.
• Lowry, L. (2019, November 22). Biography. Retrieved November 21, 2019, from http://www.loislowry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&It....
• Unknown. (1970, January 1). Important events of Lois Lowry. Retrieved November 21, 2019, from http://readmorebooksecp2013.blogspot.com/2014/01/important-events-of-lois-l....