Who Wrote The Giver?

Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer. Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg. Her maternal grandfather, Merkel Landis, a banker, created the Christmas Club savings program in 1910.  Initially, Lowry’s parents named her “Cena” for her Norwegian grandmother, but upon hearing the news, her grandmother telegraphed and instructed Lowry’s parents that the child should have an American name. Lois Lowry 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. The Giver, which is common in the curriculum in some schools, has been prohibited in others. Biographer Joel Chaston described her as “clearly one of the most important twentieth-century American writers for children”.