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	Lois Lowry: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The giver (1993) by lois lowry is a soft science fiction novel set in a possible future society which first seems to be a utopia and gradually...
		Gathering blue is a 2000 novel by noted childrens author lois lowry....
		Messenger is a 2004 novel by noted childrens author lois lowry....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/lois_lowry.htm (548 words)

	Borders - Feature - Vintage Inspiration: Lois Lowry Looks to the Past
		Lois Lowry, a two-time Newbery medalist, is not only one of our most celebrated children's authors, she's also a photographer.
		Lowry starts each chapter with an image—an old car, a soldier headed off to World War I—but the cover photograph is the one that gave her her story.
		Lowry is at work on the final book of a trilogy that includes the loosely connected The Giver and Gathering Blue.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=lowry (792 words)

	Author Profile: Lois Lowry
		Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer.
		Lois Lowry is an indispensable figure in children's and young adult fiction, having written such classic novels as THE GIVER, GATHERING BLUE, MESSENGER and NUMBER THE STARS.
		In this interview Lois Lowry discusses why she wrote MESSENGER, the difficult decision she made that impacts one of the main characters in the story and the universal appeal of her Newbery Award-winning novel THE GIVER.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-lowry-lois.asp (3158 words)

	LOWRY PAGE
		Lois Lowry was born March 20, 1937 in Hawaii to Robert and Katharine Hammersberg.
		Lowry allows her readers to experience the emotional side of adoption from three different perspectives; the childless couple, the adopted child, and the birth mother.
		Lowry's older sister died of cancer, although she was older than the character in the book when she passed away.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~kvander/lowry.html (1716 words)

	Lois Lowry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She was born in Hawaii to an army family, who named her "Sena" for her Norwegian grandmother; hearing of this, her grandmother telegraphed and instructed her parents that the child should have an American name.
		[1] (Lois and Ann were the names of her father's sisters.) Her most famous book, The Giver, is popular yet controversial, and it has been banned in some schools.
		She is the only author to be awarded the Newbery Medal twice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lois_Lowry (153 words)

	Lois Lowry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lois Lowry was born March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, HI; dad a dentist, married and divorced an attorney, had 4 children.
		Lois Lowry is a children's writer whose books have broad appeal.
		The book is autobiographical from the standpoint that Lowry's own sister died from cancer while they were both in their twenties, but she says that "very little [of A Summer to Die] was factual, except the emotions." Well-received by critics, A Summer to Die garnered praise for both its form and content.
	home.comcast.net /~egallaway/lit267/lowry.htm (1716 words)

	Who Is Lois Lowry - Library Sciences
		Lois Lowry is an "Army Brat." Her father was a dentist serving in the United States Army.
		Lowry has stated that as a child she was not very comfortable with people and not very athletic.
		The grief and loss Lois Lowry experienced when her sister died of cancer became the basis for her first novel A Summer to Die Lowry addresses the guilt that children often feel at the death of a sibling.
	www.bellaonline.org /articles/art3786.asp (471 words)

	Author Study: Lois Lowry
		Lois is an accomplished photographer (the cover of The Giver is her own work) and she has an artist's eye for composition.
		Lois has said that each reader reads his or her own book and that is certainly shown in the varied reactions to The Giver.
		Lois Lowry's work is wide-ranging, richly varied and right on target for her intended audiences.
	www.carolhurst.com /authors/llowry.html (1340 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Looking Back: A Book of Memories
		Reviews: "Memory," wrote Cicero, "is the treasury and guardian of all things." Lois Lowry shares her memories, accompanied by a treasury of family photos, with humor, pathos, and for one so self-conscious as a child, remarkable candor.
		Lowry is herself a tireless photographer of family, so the reader is treated to baby pictures of several generations, as well as accompanying anecdotes, interspersed with quotes from Lowry's books.
		Lowry shares the birth of her children, her divorce, her new romance, and her grandchildren.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=51565089 (378 words)

	PW: Lois Lowry: Snapshots from Her Life - 9/7/1998 - Publishers Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The book gathers snapshots from Lowry's family archives, corresponding autobiographical snippets and brief passages taken from some of her novels, which were inspired by real-life incidents.
		Lowry notes that another aspect of this tragedy -- the fact that her son's death while on a military mission became what she terms "a kind of media event with many political and legal ramifications" -- convinced her to complete this project.
		From the plentiful mail Lowry receives from her readers, she is aware of the intense interest today's kids have in authors'; lives, which she attributes to the attention teachers pay to the art and craft of writing.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA166038.html?pubdate=9/7/1998&display=archive (981 words)

	Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning 'Giver' still ignites debate
		While Lowry has written 30 books, and even won another Newbery Medal (in 1990 for "Number the Stars"), it's clear that "The Giver" is the most talked-about book she's ever written.
		Lowry, 68, got the idea for "The Giver" years ago when she was traveling regularly to visit her parents, who were in a nursing home.
		Although she won't talk much about her work in progress, Lowry did disclose that it is "a lighthearted book, a bit of a romp, with a lot of stock characters, mistaken identities, romance, villains with fl underwear and bad breath and a happy ending all around."
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20040218lowry0218fnp3.asp (1168 words)

	The Packer Collegiate Institute: Lois Lowry '56 Speaks to Packer Students
		Lowry is the author of over 20 novels and was awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal twice, for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994.
		Lowry was asked about the most noticeable change in her writing over the years.
		Lowry attended Brown University, but left after her sophomore year to get married, then raised a family of four children.
	www.packer.edu /page.cfm?p=660 (579 words)

	Lois Lowry, Giver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lowry, the most obvious being: "How much freedom are you willing to sacrifice in order to live a comfortable life?"
		Lowry hits some of the most sacrosanct issues of our time (Who among us would not be appalled at the treatment of children in the novel?).
		I used The Giver for several semesters, with advanced ESL students, who, having come from oppressive cultures, are certainly aroused by this novel.
	www.neiu.edu /~gspackar/lowry.html (256 words)

	Amazon.com: The Giver: Books: Lois Lowry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lowry's development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community's citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society.
		Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers.
		Lowry very realistically describes the process of emerging color-sight, describing what it is like for the first time to truly see after all your life living in a society of fl and white.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440237688?v=glance (1906 words)

	The Giver Summary & Essays - Lois Lowry
		When The Giver was first published in 1993, Lois Lowry was already a previous Newbery Medal winner (for her 1989 World War II novel, Number the Stars).
		Lowry's other work is mostly grounded in the cut and thrust of family life.
		Lowry spent a good part of her childhood living near the Amish people of Pennsylvania.
	www.enotes.com /giver (345 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Lois Lowry Has The Answers
		Lowry says that this book’s overriding theme will actually be similar to that in many of her other novels.
		Lowry’s books are not all so heavy, however—after all, she is also well known for a distinctly lighter side, fondly remembered for the Anastasia series of nine books that detail the misadventures of 10- to 13-year-old Anastasia Krupnik.
		Lowry’s love of children’s writing, however, only grew from there, as she has had the unique opportunity to see the impact she makes on childrens’ lives.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=347634 (1782 words)

	Interviews: Lois Lowry Interview
		Lois Lowry's already had positive response from teachers recounting the success of The Giver with their students.
		She knew she was dying, all of her contemporaries were dead, and these were not stories that were important, but it was her life and she wanted to pass it along." A polar view of memory came to Lowry from experiences with her father, almost eighty, and living in the same nursing home.
		Lowry's German-born daughter-in-law viewing the situation of the Native Americans in New Mexico told her, "It's clear to me how we have to tell these terribly painful stories.
	www.wildewritingworks.com /int/lowrylois.html (920 words)

	BookSense.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lois Lowry's stories have been entrancing readers for more than two decades.
		Lowry's most recent novel, Book Sense 76 pick*Gathering Blue, depicts a future society in which the government attempts to harness and use the talents of those like young Kira -- an exceptional embroiderer and weaver with a magical eye for color.
		Lois Lowry: My first book -- A Summer to Die -- was published in 1977.
	www.booksense.com /people/archive/lowry.jsp (1905 words)

	Educational Paperback Association
		Lois Lowry received her B.A. degree in 1972 at the University of Maine, where she also did some graduate study.
		Lois Lowry; The Horn Book (ISSN: 0018-5078) v70 423-6 Jl/Ag 1994 McElmeel, Sharron L. 100 most popular children's authors; biographical sketches and bibliographies.
		An interview with Lois Lowry, 1994 Newbery medal winner; The Reading Teacher (ISSN: 0034-0561) v48 308-9 D 1994/Ja 1995 Speaking for ourselves, too; more autobiographical sketches by notable authors of books for young adults.
	www.edupaperback.org /showauth.cfm?authid=62 (1126 words)

	Lois Lowry
		Because Lowry suffuses her characters with the traits of people that are important to her, they feel like real people.
		Lowry searched through her files of photographs and selected a portrait of a Swedish girl she’d taken several years ago saying, “The girl in the book ought to look like this.” The publisher used the photo on the cover instead of an illustration.
		Lowry always knew she wanted to be a writer, and when her four children were very young she began selling short stories to magazines.
	www.patriciamnewman.com /lowry.html (643 words)

	SAyers Lecture
		Childrens author Lois Lowry, this year's Frances Clarke Sayers Lecturer, signs books for audience members after her talk.
		Lowry, a two-time Newbery Medal winner, was this year's Frances Clarke Sayers Lecturer -- the fourth in an annual series presented by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies' Department of Information Studies.
		This year, Lowry's lecture was titled "One Small Thread," a phrase out of an essay by Sayers that appeared in Publishers Weekly in 1950.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /forum/v1n3/sayers.html (657 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Lois Lowry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lois Lowry has twice won the prestigious Newbery Medal for Number the Stars and The Giver.
		Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.
		People are constantly asking two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry where she gets her ideas.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=18179 (1422 words)

	The Giver
		Lois Lowry has recently put up her own web page, at--of course--LoisLowry.com.
		Another Lois Lowry page, from the Library Sciences people at Rutgers University, tells some further tidbits about her.
		In a recent interview with AOL teenreads.com, Lois Lowry talks about her new book, which she calls a "companion novel" to The Giver.
	www.tallmania.com /Giver.html (655 words)

	Messenger by Lois Lowry - Book Review
		But parents need to know that Lowry breaks a cardinal rule of children's literature at the end; child characters whom the reader has gotten to know don't die.
		Here one does, though Lowry has kept the reader at such an emotional distance that it is not as devastating as it might be.
		Lowry's writing is, as always, rich and beautifully textured, and her story is gripping.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /reviews/review.php?id=2652&type=Book (672 words)

	Teachers@Random
		and Anastasia Krupnik to Number the Stars and The Giver—Lois Lowry’s appeal is as broad as her subject matter and as deep as her desire to affect an eager generation of readers.
		Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended junior high school in Tokyo, Japan.
		Lois Lowry didn’t start writing professionally until she was in her mid-30s.
	www.randomhouse.com /teachers/authors/results.pperl?authorid=18179 (1450 words)

	Unit 5 : Making Your Mark : Lois Lowry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the middle child of three, but her father's career as a military officer caused the family to move to Pennsylvania and later to Japan.
		Lowry knew as a preschooler that she would be a writer, and her high school yearbook prediction, "future novelist," seemed to confirm her fate.
		She attended Brown University, married, raised four children, and graduated from the University of Maine before her career as a writer took hold.
	www.classzone.com /books/language_of_lit_gr06/page_build.cfm?content=links_author_u5&u=5 (144 words)

	Lois Lowry Quizzes and Trivia -- World's Largest Trivia Site!
		An easy quiz over Lois Lowry's brilliant novel based on the bravery of the Danish people in the face of danger.
		This quiz is for those who have read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry and are frustrated with the ending!
		Test yourself on you knowledge of Lois Lowry's "The Giver" with a few very simple questions.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/literature/authors_l-p/lois_lowry.html (482 words)

	Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While Gathering Blue is not exactly a sequel to Lois Lowry's dark and powerful Newbery-award winning novel The Giver, it is also set in a futuristic post-apocalyptic society bound with rigid structures.
		She chooses her words carefully and deliberately: for example, the terms "hubby" and "tyke" are used to identify husbands and children, but in this bleak context, the words are stripped of their original, affectionate connotation.
		While the society she portrays is stifling and at times ugly, Lowry plants a seed of hope that may or may not flourish.
	www.rambles.net /lowry_gathering.html (420 words)

	Holocaust Lesson Plan: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
		This was the first Newbery Award winner by Lois Lowry.
		For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of reading this very accessible novel within easy reach of fourth or even third grade readers, it's the story of the determination of the people of Denmark to get the Jews to safety while the Nazis were equally determined to annihilate them.
		Lowry focuses our attention on the Johansen family who have coped with the occupation by the Nazis fairly well.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /Holocaust/activity/35plan/number.htm (1300 words)

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