About the Author

About Lois Lowry

Lois Lowery was born as Lois Ann Hammersberg on march 20, 1937 in

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She wrote more than 30 children's books and autobiography. She won many awards. Her best book is The Giver, second best is Number the Stars and third best book is Gathering Blue which is the second part of The Giver

Lowry's father was a career military officer – an Army dentist. Because of father's work they moved all over United States and to many parts of the world. Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when Lowry was two years old and later they moved to her mother's hometown, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1942 when Lowry's father moved to the Pacific during World War II. Lowry's father served on a hospital ship called the USS Hope and on the island of Tinian during the war.