She
has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the
Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, “Number
the Stars” and “The Giver”. Her first novel, “A Summer to Die” received the
International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have
been adapted to film and stage, and “The Giver” has even become an opera.
Newbery Medal
- winning Giver Quartet series: “The Giver,” “Gathering Blue,” “Messenger,”
and “Son.”
Lois
Lowry is the author of more than forty books for young adults (YA), including
the popular “Anastasia Krupnik” series.
Lois
Lowry was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan.
After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned
her attention to writing. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Maine and
Florida.
