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Lois Ann Lowry (/ ˈ l aʊər i /; [2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet , Number the Stars , and Rabble Starkey .
Lowry was born in 1953 in Auckland, New Zealand. [1] She has a diploma of teaching from Auckland Teachers College (1973), BA in English from Curtin University, a postgraduate diploma of English literature, and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. [2]
Janette Sebring Lowrey (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1986) [2] [3] [4] was an American children's writer, best known for the book The Poky Little Puppy. [5] As of 2001, The Poky Little Puppy was the single all-time best-selling hardcover children's book in the U.S., having sold nearly 15 million copies. [6]
Children's author Natalie Babbitt, writing in The Washington Post called the novel "a warning in narrative form," saying: "The story has been told before in a variety of forms—Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind—but not, to my knowledge, for children. It's well worth telling, especially by a writer of Lowry's great skill.
Henry Berry Lowry (c. 1845 – after 1872), American outlaw Henry Dawson Lowry (1869–1906), English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet Henry Lowry (died 1921), African-American man murdered by white vigilantes in Arkansas, see lynching of Henry Lowry
Lowry Mays, the founder of Clear Channel Communications, which is now known as iHeartMedia, has died. He was 87. It was Mays’ alma mater, Texas A&M University, that announced the businessman had ...
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Laird Koenig, who wrote “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane,” died in Santa Barbara on June 30, Jamie Dixon, the son of Koenig’s collaborator Peter L. Dixon, told Variety. He was 95.