Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry was born March 20, 1937. Lois was born in Hawaii to two loveing parents named Robert and KatherineHammersburg. She has an older sister, Helen, and a younger brother Jon. Lois married Donald Lowry and they had four beautiful children together. After Lois’s children grew oldeR, Lois decided to go back to school and finish her degree. Lois started to write children’s books. Unfortunatly, Lois and Donald divorced in 1977 and many years later their son Grey died in a plane accident. With such tragic events, Lois continued to write. Lois had wriiten over 40 books. Also, Lois has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice. The first Newbery Medal was for her book Number the Stars and her second one is for The Giver.