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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 .
She has two children. [1] Her husband, Jay, died of suicide shortly after their wedding, which prompted her creative writing career. [2] In August 2016, she presented at the TEDxRapidCity event, where she "explores how everyone, not just authors, can use the power of fiction to transform." [3] Lourey has received a Master of Arts and Master of ...
The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry's 'Tender Is the Night' edited with an introduction by Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen; The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry (1992) edited by Kathleen Scherf; The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans (2019) Nigel H. Foxcroft, Lexington Books: Lanham, MD.
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
Meg, the younger of two sisters, is the story's narrator and primary protagonist. Their father, an English professor at a university, has decided to take a year off from teaching to write a book that he only half-jokingly claims will shake the world of literature.
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.
The 50-year-old scribe, who also worked on the series “Wasteland,” died by suicide on May 26. That was 13 months after she contracted the virus that has killed 600,000 Americas.
Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in November 1938.