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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 .
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.
Mrs Lowry & Son is a biographical drama film set in Pendlebury Greater Manchester, chronicling the life of the renowned artist L. S. Lowry.It was directed by Adrian Noble from a screenplay written by Martyn Hesford who also wrote the original play, and considers the relationship between Lowry and his mother Elizabeth, who has reservations over her son's career in painting. [2]
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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]
The best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford has died. She was 91. The British-American author died “peacefully at her home” following a short illness on Sunday, Nov. 24, PEOPLE can confirm.