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Lois Lowry Biography!!!

Top Ten Books By Lois Lowry

What Influenced Lois Lowrys' Writings?

Bibliography

  • The Giver (1993)
  • Number The Stars (1989)
  • Gathering Blue (2000)
  • Anastasia Krupnik (1979)
  • Gooney Bird Greene (2002)
  • Gossamer (2006)
  • A Summer To Die (1977)
  • Son (2012)
  • The Willoughbys
  • Find A Stranger, Say Goodbye (1978)
  • http://www.loislowry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=196

The main thing that influenced or inspired Lois Lowrys' writing was her grandchildren. Lois states in her own Biography that this a reason of her writing." For my own grandchildren - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another." Lois also lived in Maine while growing up; so she used some description of Maine in her books as settings.

Background Facts

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  • Lois Lowry was born March 20, 1937 (age 78), Honolulu, HI
  • Middle child-Older sister Helen and a younger brother Jon.
  • Lois Lowry had five kids, and then her older boy died in a cockpit of a war- plane.
  • Currently lives in Maine with a cat, Lulu, and a Tibetan Terrier named Alfie.
  • http://loislowry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=619&Itemid=215
  • http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/lois-lowry.html
  • http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/lois-lowry.html

Major Events In Lois' Life

  • Married at nineteen to a Naval Officer
  • Moved to Connecticut and had a daughter
  • Moved to Florida and had a son
  • Moved to Massachusetts and entered Harvard Law School and had a daughter, then a son
  • Marriage ended in 1977, when Lois Lowry was 40 years of age
  • Older son passed away
  • Lois became a grandmother
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