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Lowry was the middle child. She had an older sister named Helen, and a younger brother named Jon. [6] Helen died of cancer in 1962, [3] but Lowry and her brother still share a close relationship. [6] Lowry's father was an army dentist, whose work moved the family all over the United States and to many parts of the world. [3]
In 2004 she was the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence. [14] In February 2017, Lowry was the visiting writer at the Michael King Writers Centre .
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.
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]
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.
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.
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 ...
Robert James Collas Lowry (March 28, 1919 – December 5, 1994) was an American novelist, short story writer, illustrator, and independent press publisher. Lowry was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a literary wunderkind who began writing at the age of 8; within a year, he had stories published in the Cincinnati Times Star .