![]() The Giver and Number the Stars have won Newbery awards, and The Giver has been one of the most challenged books in American schools. Lowry has written a number of children's novels since then. At this point, she and her husband decided to divorce. A lifelong writer, she worked as a freelance journalist and photographer and in 1977 published her first novel, A Summer to Die. They settled in Maine after her husband ended his military career and there, Lowry completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern Maine. She dropped out when she married her husband, and the two had four children. Lowry enrolled at Pembroke College in Brown University (the associated women's college of Brown now part of the university itself), but only completed two years. She attended junior high school in Japan, but graduated from high school in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was an Army dentist, so her family moved often around the United States and the globe. When she was born, her parents initially gave her a Norwegian name (her father was of Norwegian descent), but when her paternal grandmother objected, they named her Lois. ![]()
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