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About Lois Lowry

  • Born: March 20, 1937
  • Occupation: Writer
    • She was the only doctor's wife in branford, maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. she had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.
    Husband Doctors Wind
    And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.
    Lonely All Alone
    His mind reeled. now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "do you lie?" but he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
    Father Lying Knowing
    People in the know say the giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.
    People Adults Firsts
    Sometimes i wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things i could tell them; things i wish they would change. but they don't want change. life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. it's what they've chosen.
    Life Changing Wish Want
    Think only on the climb. think on what you control
    Thinking Climbs
    So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?
    Parent
    I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though i have greatly enjoyed some of the work of ursula leguin. i haven't read much science fiction so i don't know other sci-fi authors.
    Couple Book Fall
    I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what i have known.
    Book Knowing Feelings
    What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your assignment.
    Preparation Training Important
    For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
    Punishment Community Decision
    I think 'the giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that i couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
    Believe Book Kids
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