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Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. She is the author of more than thirty books, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and the Anastasia Krupnik series, and is known for tackling difficult subject matter — racism, terminal illness, the Holocaust, and dystopian futures — for young readers. Lowry has won the Newbery Medal twice, for Number the Stars (1990) and The Giver (1994). Her book Gooney...