The New York Times: War and Remembrance: New Novels by Lois Lowry and Gayle Forman
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Lois Lowry
Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer. She is the author of many books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, the Anastasia series, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matter, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences.
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Born 20 March 1937 · Q238124
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2022· 1 entry
About how she feels about her writing appearing on "banned book" lists, she replied: "I read those lists, and my name often on them, with enormous sadness
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2020· 2 entries
American publishing company Scholastic Corporation asked Lowry to write a new introduction to Like the Willow Tree, a story of a young girl living in Portland, Maine who was orphaned during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic
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Time magazine described The Giver as "a staple of both middle school curricular and banned book lists
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Premio Bernard Versele (2012).
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The Giver had been perennially near the top of the America Library Association's list of banned and challenged books since its publication
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2011· 2 entries
But Scholastic re-issued the book when it was clear that the issues portrayed in the story were newly relevant
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Gave the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture; her lecture was titled "UNLEAVING: The Staying Power of Gold"
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Margaret Edwards Award (2007).
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Received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contributions writing for teens
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2002· 1 entry
Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the Rhode Island Children's Book Award
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1994· 3 entries
Won Newbery Medal for The Giver (1994).
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Won Regina Medal (1994).
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Lowry was awarded the Regina Medal
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1993· 1 entry
It was "unusual and unsettling" for children's literature to address topics of political oppression, euthanasia, suicide, or murder
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1991· 1 entry
Won Vermont Golden Dome Book Award for Number the Stars (1991).
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1990· 4 entries
Awarded National Jewish Book Awards for Number the Stars (1990).
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Won Newbery Medal for Number the Stars (1990).
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For her novel Number the Stars, and again in 1994 for The Giver
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In the Children's Literature category, and the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award in 1991
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1989· 1 entry
Which received multiple awards, including the 1990 Newbery Medal
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1977· 1 entry
At 40 years old, Lowry's first book, A Summer to Die, was published
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1956· 1 entry
After her marriage to Donald Grey Lowry, a U
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1950· 1 entry
Where she attended her freshman year of high school before moving to Governors Island, New York, when her father was assigned to First Army Headquarters there
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1942· 1 entry
To her mother's home town in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during World War II
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1940· 1 entry
When Lowry was three years old
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1937· 2 entries
Born 1937-03-20.
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In Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E
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