

Early Lifeīorn Lois Ann Hammersberg on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Lowry is one of America's most popular and versatile children's book authors. More recent works include Son (2012) and Gooney Bird and All Her Charms (2013).

In 1993, Lowry received the honor a second time for The Giver, which would eventually become a 2014 film. She won her first Newbery Award for the 1989 novel Number the Stars. After this serious drama, Lowry showed her lighter side with 1979's Anastasia Krupnik, which became the first in a series of humorous books. Author Lois Lowry published her first novel, A Summer to Die, in 1977.
