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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 .
"Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" was a tribute to the artist L. S. Lowry, who had died in February 1976. The chorus makes reference to Lowry's style of painting human figures, which was similar to stick figure drawings (a "matchstalk" is a matchstick in the Salford dialect). [6]
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, [update] 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.
An Australian man and former inspirational personality as a child is among the victims of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, his family says.. Rory Sykes, 32, who appeared in the media as a ...
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 ...
The video sets the group in a number of Lowry scenes, but clues as to their modernity are given by inclusion of such items as a satellite dish. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] In August 2010, the play Figures Half Unreal was performed by the Brass Bastion theatre company in Berwick-upon-Tweed where Lowry was a regular visitor.
Cynthia Weil, one of the major pop songwriters associated with the Brill Building sound of the early 1960s, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 82. Her daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann ...