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Lois Lowry

86 years old Children's Author born on

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Profession
Children's Author
Age
86 years old
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
Honolulu HI
About
Children's author who won Newberry Awards for Number the Stars and The Giver. Known for tackling controversial subjects in her books for children, she also received the prestigious Hans Christian Anderson and Margaret Edwards awards.
Family
She was born in Hawaii to Katherine Gordon and Robert Hammersberg. 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. She was married to Donald Lowry from 1956 until 1977; they are parents to two daughters and two sons.

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