Lois Lowry

Susan Tan (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Ed. by Louise Joy, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 20 Mar 1937
Activity 1977-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer

Resources

Acclaimed children’s author Lois Lowry has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice, and in 2007 was awarded the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contribution to Young Adult literature. To date, she has published forty-three books, all for children and young adults.

Lowry was born in 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father was in the military, and Lowry grew up on military bases, moving frequently across the United States and as far as Tokyo. Lowry attended Brown University, leaving for college when she was only seventeen years old. However, after two years at Brown, she left to marry fellow-classmate Donald Lowry. Lowry had four children, and later returned to college, earning a B.A. and pursuing …

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Citation: Tan, Susan. "Lois Lowry". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 August 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13271, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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