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Lois Lowry      

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling “Giver Quartet" and popular "Anastasia Krupnik" series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, “Number the Stars” and “The Giver”. Her first novel, “A Summer to Die”, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Ms. Lowry lives in Maine.

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Children's Book Author Lois Lowry Visits Bowdoin | Bowdoin News
Periodically throughout Lois Lowry's recent talk at Bowdoin, she would read one of the funny, touching or critical emails she has received from her readers over ...
Writer Lois Lowry Offers Advice to Students | Bowdoin News
After writer Lois Lowry gave a talk in Kresge Auditorium and had dinner with a few students in Thorne Dining Hall, she made her way to Reed House, where she ...
Chatham News » Award-Winning Children's Book Author, Lois ...
Award-Winning Children's Book Author, Lois Lowry, to Speak at Chatham University ... In 2007 she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American ...
'Your People Will Be My People': Lois Lowry on Her Favorite Bible ...
Lois Lowry is the author of The Giver and Number the Stars. A passage from the Book of Ruth moved the author at her son's wedding—and returned to her at his ...
Lois Lowry Wins the Best of Brooklyn, Inc. Award - GalleyCat
Two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry won the award this year. Past recipients include journalist Pete Hamill, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, and poet ...

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