Lois Lowry is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. Starting out in journalism and photography, she switched to fiction at the suggestion of an editor at Houghton Mifflin. Her first novel, A Summer to Die, published in 1977, received the International Reading Associations Children's Book Award. She is also the recipient of two Newbery Medals (for Number the Stars and The Giver) and countless other awards, including the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and the Mark Twain Award. With her highly regarded latest novel The Son (2012) she effectively completed a quartet includingThe Giver(1995), Gathering Blue (2000), and Messenger (2004). Ms. Lowry divides her time between Cambridge, MA and a farmhouse in Maine.
