https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4 This is what we know about our author... en-us 2017-02-23 18:29:20 UTC 2025-10-06 11:20:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088683 credited with more than thirty children's books

]]> 2017-02-24 17:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088683 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088716 Born March 20, 1937 (age 79 years) In Honolulu, HI]]> 2017-02-24 17:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088716 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088738  She has won two Newbery Medals, for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994

]]> 2017-02-24 17:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088738 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088777 Lois Lowry is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books.]]> 2017-02-24 17:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088777 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088822 Lois Lowry's mother was blind, and she would frequently visit her. On one particular visit , her mother told her about the stories of her life.  In the course of retelling those anecdotes, she related the details about the death of her first child (Lois' sister Helen), her mother's saddest memory. This inspired Lois Lowry to write The Giver.]]> 2017-02-24 17:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088822 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088877 For her contribution as a children's writer, she was a finalist in 2000 and U.S. nominee again in 2004, as well as a finalist in 2016 for the biennial]]> 2017-02-24 17:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088877 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088932 Middle child of three and a military brat]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088932 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088934 Tragically, her older sister died of cancer at the age of only twenty-eight, an event that deeply influenced Lowry's first book, A Summer To Die.]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088934 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088945 Has won 47 awards.]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156088945 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089009 She was around 8 or 9 years old when she decided she wanted to be a writer.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089009 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089012 She has lived in places like Tokyo, Hawaii,  New York, and Pennsylvania.]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089012 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089015 Has 6 awards]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089015 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089069 Donald Grey Lowry is her husband

]]> 2017-02-24 17:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089069 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089230 She was around 8 or 9 years old when she decided she wanted to be a writer. 

]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089230 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089250 Lois Lowry has a dog named Alfie, and a cat named Lulu]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089250 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089303 She was a shy and introverted child]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089303 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089312 she wrote "the giver" based on her dad who suffered from short term memory loss]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089312 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089313 In 1977, Lowry published her first novel, A Summer to Die.]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089313 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089332 She has got her education from 3 different colleges.]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089332 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089350 As a child, she was introverted and loved to read]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089350 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089449 Lois Lowry is one of America's most popular and versatile children's book authors.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089449 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089493 Her full name is Lois Ann Hammersberg Lowry.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089493 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089573 spent two years at Brown University before dropping out to get married.]]> 2017-02-24 17:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089573 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089625 It was her who took the pictures that are on the cover on The Giver and Number the Stars.]]> 2017-02-24 17:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089625 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089676 dad was an army dentist

]]> 2017-02-24 17:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089676 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089683 Lois Lowry likes to read and knitting.]]> 2017-02-24 17:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089683 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089757 2017-02-24 17:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089757 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089769 Her husband was in the Navy.]]> 2017-02-24 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089769 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089799 Her father was a dentist and Army officer, which led to her to live in several different places growing up. 

]]> 2017-02-24 17:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089799 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089948 She then spent two years at Brown University before dropping out to get married.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089948 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089972 she had 4 childern while writing her books and now has grandkids]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089972 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089977 Her children are  Grey Lowry, Benjamin Lowry, Kristin Lowry, Alix Lowry]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089977 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089997 Lois Lowry has 2 sons and 2 daughters]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156089997 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090040 Lowry experienced a tremendous loss in 1995. Her son Grey, a U.S. Air Force pilot, died in a plane crash. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090040 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090069 Lois Lowry spent a few of her school years in Japan, but she ended up graduating from a New York City high school. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090069 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090078 Her senior quote was "Future Novelist"]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090078 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090104 er sister died of cancer]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090104 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090129 older sister, Helen,]]> 2017-02-24 17:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090129 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090215 she now lives in massuchetts

]]> 2017-02-24 17:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090215 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090246 Lois Lowry is a pen name]]> 2017-02-24 17:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090246 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090274
Children: Grey Lowry, Benjamin Lowry, Kristin Lowry, Alix Lowry]]> 2017-02-24 17:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090274 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090430 one of her sons was a fighter pilot

]]> 2017-02-24 17:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090430 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090479 In 1979, Lowry published Autumn Street, a novel that drew further inspiration from her own life. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090479 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090492 Author Lois Lowry was born on March 20 1937
, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She published her first novel, A Summer to Die, in 1977. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090492 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090503 She has written a little over 50 books.]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090503 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090524 She went to  Curtis High School

]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090524 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090551 Awards: John Newbery Medal

]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090551 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090569 Her older son was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force.]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090569 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090572 The Giver - and the two books that follow it and make a trilogy (soon to be a quartet! I've just finished the fourth book!]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090572 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090574 she has taken photographs for children's books]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090574 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090604 based books of personal expirences

]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090604 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090632 Her first published book was called "Black American Literature"]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090632 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090644 She loves photography]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090644 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090706 Her son's daughter Nadine was only a toddler when her father died in a plane crash. Despite her grief, Lowry sought to make a book for her granddaughter about her life with her father.]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090706 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090744 Lowry also worked on promoting the movie adaptation of her novel The Giver]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090744 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090794 she uses experiences she has been though and exaggerates thenm to fit into her books

]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090794 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090797 Lowry was inspired to write "The Giver" because of her fathers memory loss.]]> 2017-02-24 17:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090797 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090841 Lois Lowry says that she is publishing a fourth book to "The Giver".]]> 2017-02-24 17:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090841 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090966 Her daughter is disabled due to a central nervous system disease]]> 2017-02-24 17:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156090966 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091121 her older sister died of cancer at the age of only twenty-eight

]]> 2017-02-24 17:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091121 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091126 She has tackled a number of topics in her literature including adoption, mental illness, cancer, the Holocaust and futuristic societies.]]> 2017-02-24 17:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091126 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091192 In 2002, Lowry launched another successful children's book series with Gooney Bird Greene.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091192 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091197 In 1993, Lowry received the honor a second time for The Giver, which would eventually become a 2014 film. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091197 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091231 Got Married at the age of 19.]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091231 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091265 Her book A Summer to Die was inspired by the death of her sister.]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091265 s2106 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091294 Her first book was made in 1977]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091294 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091357 "The Giver" has become a movie, play, opera, musical, and of course... a book.]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091357 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091387 realy good photographer


]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091387 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091412 In one interview, Lois Lowry states that if there was anything  she could do differently with the book, she would expand the final section after Jonas left the community . In her words, "It was supposed to encompass a great deal of time and distance, and it feels too fast-paced for me, finished too quickly." ]]> 2017-02-24 17:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091412 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091547 the book the giver was inspired by her fathers memory loss http://www.npr.org/2014/08/16/340170478/lois-lowry-says-the-giver-was-inspired-by-her-fathers-memory-loss]]> 2017-02-24 17:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091547 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091665  She decided that she wanted to be a writer when she was only eight or nine years old .]]> 2017-02-24 17:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091665 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091711 Lois Lowry keeps her Newbery medals placed away in a box in her basement.]]> 2017-02-24 17:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091711 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091809 Several Of Her Books Were Inspired By Personal Experiences.]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091809 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091882 Was married twice.]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091882 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091947 In 2002, Lowry published a successful children's book series with Gooney Bird Greene. The book's title character is a quirky and adventurous elementary school student.]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091947 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091963 Several Of Her Books Were Inspired By Personal Experiences.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156091963 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092058 When the Newbery committee notified Lowry that THE GIVER was the 1994 winner, they reached her on a boat in Antarctica. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092058 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092106 She likes to garden in her free time]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092106 s2106 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092109 Her book "The Giver" has over 10 different covers]]> 2017-02-24 17:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092109 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092465 Her Norwegian name is Cena, so you can't see her. ]]> 2017-02-24 17:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092465 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092563 All of Lowry's book deal with individuality in some way]]> 2017-02-24 17:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092563 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092677 Since "The Giver" was published in 1993, it has sold more than 10 million copies.]]> 2017-02-24 17:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092677 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092792 Lois Lowry currently lives in Massachusetts.

]]> 2017-02-24 17:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092792 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092826 She married her first husband when she was 19.]]> 2017-02-24 17:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092826 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092922 Lois Lowry states that she was a solitary child.]]> 2017-02-24 17:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092922 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092992 Prefers to talk to kids instead of adults]]> 2017-02-24 17:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156092992 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093061 Lois Lowry currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts]]> 2017-02-24 17:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093061 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093139 Lois Lowry is her pen name. Actually she was born with the full name Lois Ann Hammersberg ]]> 2017-02-24 17:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093139 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093169 Her parents are Robert E. Hammersberg and Katherine Gordon.]]> 2017-02-24 17:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093169 https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093195 Tragically, her older sister died of cancer at the age of only twenty-eight, an event that deeply influenced Lowry's first book, A Summer To Die.]]> 2017-02-24 17:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilliams/fuhc2zjq74s4/wish/156093195