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Louis Lowry
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 is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences.
Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award.
Many of her books have been challenged or even banned in some schools and libraries, including the first book of The Giver Quartet, The Giver (1993) which is considered mandatory curriculum in some schools while being prohibited in others.
Lowry's father was an army dentist, whose work moved the family all over the United States and to many parts of the world
Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to Brooklyn, New York, in 1939, when Lowry was two years old
They relocated in 1942 to her mother's hometown in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during World War II.
After World War II, Lowry moved with her family to Tokyo, Japan, where her father was stationed from 1948 to 1950.
Lowry attended seventh and eighth grades at The American School in Japan, a school for dependents of those involved in the military.
After World War II, Lowry moved with her family to Tokyo, Japan, where her father was stationed from 1948 to 1950
Lowry attended seventh and eighth grades at The American School in Japan, a school for dependents of those involved in the military.
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By 2000, eight of her books had been challenged in schools and libraries in the United States
In particular, The Giver (the first novel in The Giver Quartet) received a diversity of reactions from schools in America after its release in 1993.
The Giver had been perennially near the top of the America Library Association's list of banned and challenged books since its publication.
In a 2012 review of Son, the New York Times said the 1993 publication of The Giver had "shocked adult and child sensibilities alike"
In 2020, Time magazine described The Giver as "a staple of both middle school curricular and banned book lists.
Biographer Joel Chaston described her as "clearly one of the most important twentieth-century American writers for children"
Robin Wasserman, a writer for The New York Times, said "In many ways, Lowry invented the contemporary young adult dystopian novel
pointing out that in 1993 it was "unusual and unsettling" for children's literature to address topics of political oppression, euthanasia, suicide, or murder.
Lowry won the Newbery Medal in 1990 for her novel Number the Stars, and again in 1994 for The Giver.
For Number the Stars, Lowry has also received the National Jewish Book Award in 1990
Lowry has been nominated three times for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books
In 2007, she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contributions writing for teens
The ALA Margaret Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature
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The Giver was one of the most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2000" that is, the object of "a formal, written attempt to remove a book from a library or classroom.