Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject … See more

Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg. Her maternal grandfather, Merkel Landis, a … See more

Biographer Joel Chaston described her as "clearly one of the most important twentieth-century American writers for children". See more

• The Giver (2014), a film directed by Phillip Noyce.
• The Willoughbys (2020), an animated film based on the book with the same name; released on Netflix and narrated by Ricky Gervais. See more

Lowry first began her career as a freelance journalist. In the 1970s, she submitted a short story to Redbook magazine, which was intended for adult audiences, but was written from a child's perspective. An editor working at Houghton Mifflin who read the Redbook … See more

Lowry won the Newbery Medal in 1990 for her novel Number the Stars, and again in 1994 for The Giver. For Number the Stars, Lowry has also … See more

• Lois Lowry's Website
• Lois Lowry at Library of Congress Authorities —with 61 catalog records
• Lois Lowry at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database See more