Lois Lowry
The Giver, a novel for young readers, stands as the work most closely associated with Lois Lowry and the foundation of a four-book sequence she would complete under the title The Giver Quartet.
Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, and is a citizen of the United States who writes in English. She attended the Berkeley Carroll School before pursuing higher education at Pembroke College in Brown University, the University of Maine, and the University of Southern Maine. Her professional life has taken several forms: she has worked as a journalist, a photographer, and a novelist, with her fiction directed primarily at children and young adults.
Lowry has received the Newbery Medal, one of the most recognized honors in children's literature, as well as the Premio Bernard Versele. Her body of work spans a range of titles that reflect her sustained commitment to younger readers. The Anastasia series gave that audience a recurring comic heroine across multiple volumes, while Rabble Starkey and Gathering Blue represent further dimensions of her fiction. Number the Stars is among her other novels to have drawn wide readership and recognition.
The Giver Quartet, which includes The Giver alongside Gathering Blue and the other volumes Lowry authored, represents the fullest expression of her work in long-form connected fiction. That quartet, together with the Newbery Medal and the Premio Bernard Versele, provides the most concrete accounting of what her career as a novelist, journalist, and photographer has produced.
Quotes by Lois Lowry
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It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient.
Artist?” Thomas suggested. “That’s a word. I’ve never heard anyone say it, but I’ve read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who is able to make something beautiful. Would that be the word?
You know, sometimes it’s nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn’t make sense.
But this room’s walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds – perhaps thousands – of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters.
The exemption from rudeness startled him. Reading it again, however, he realized that it didn’t compel him to be rude; it simply allowed him the option.
NEFARIOUS means utterly, completely wicked. The character in The Wizard of Oz could have been called the Nefarious Witch of the West but authors like to use the same beginning consonant, often. Perhaps L. Frank Baum crossed out nefarious after wicked came to his mind. Thank goodness, because Nefarious would be a terrible name for a musical.