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Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry(bornLois Ann Hammersberg[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-0" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[1][/url]on March 20, 1937) is an[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">American[/url][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">author[/url]of[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_literature" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">children's literature[/url]. She began her career as a[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographer" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">photographer[/url]and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s. Her work as a journalist drew the attention of[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Houghton Mifflin[/url]and they encouraged her to write her first children's book,[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_to_Die" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">A Summer to Die[/url], which was published in 1977 (when Lowry was 40 years old). She has since written more than 30 books for children and published an autobiography. Two of her works have been awarded the prestigious[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Newbery Medal[/url]:[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_the_Stars" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Number the Stars[/url]in 1990, and[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">The Giver[/url]in 1993.
As an author, Lowry is known for writing about difficult subject matters within her works for children. She has explored such complex issues as[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">racism[/url],[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_illness" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">terminal illness[/url],[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">murder[/url], and the[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Holocaust[/url]among other challenging topics. She has also explored very controversial issues of questioning authority such as in[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">The Giver[/url]Trilogy. Her writing on such matters has brought her both praise and criticism. In particular, her workThe Giverhas been met with a diversity of reactions from schools in America, some of which have adopted her book as a part of the mandatory curriculum, while others have prohibited the book's inclusion in classroom studies.
Biography
Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Hawaii[/url],[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[2][/url]to parents Robert and Katharine (Landis) Hammersberg. Initially, Lois' parents named her "Cena" for her[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Norwegian[/url]grandmother but upon hearing this, her grandmother[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">telegraphed[/url]and instructed Lois' parents that the child should have an American name.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[3][/url]Her parents chose the names Lois and Ann, which were the names of her father's sisters.
Lowry was born the middle of three children. She had an older sister, Helen, and a younger brother Jon. Helen, three years older than Lois, died in 1962 at the age of 28. This experience informed Lowry's first[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">book[/url][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_to_Die" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">A Summer to Die[/url]which is about a young girl who tragically loses her older sister (which is also a subplot of[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_the_Stars" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Number the Stars[/url]). Lowry's brother Jon is six years younger than she and grew up to be a doctor. He and Lois continue to enjoy a close relationship.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-autogenerated1-3" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[4][/url]
Lowry's father was a career military officer - an Army[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentist" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">dentist[/url], - whose work moved the family all over the United States and to many parts of the world. Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Brooklyn[/url],[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">New York[/url], in 1939 when Lowry was two years old and later relocated to her mother's hometown,[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle,_Pennsylvania" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Carlisle, Pennsylvania[/url], in 1942 when Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">World War II[/url]. Lowry's father served on a[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_ship" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">hospital ship[/url]called the[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hope_(AH-7)" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">USS Hope[/url]and on the island of[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinian" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Tinian[/url]during the war.
Following World War II, Lowry and her family moved to[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Tokyo[/url],[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Japan[/url], where her father was stationed from 1948-1950. Lowry went through junior high school at the[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_School_in_Japan" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Tokyo American School at Meguro[/url], a special school for the children of military families, and then returned to the United States to attend high school. Lowry and her family briefly lived in Carlisle again in 1950 before moving to[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Jay" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Fort Jay[/url]at[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Island" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Governors Island[/url], New York, where Lois attended[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_High_School" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Curtis High School[/url]on[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Staten Island[/url]. In 1952, Lois entered[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packer_Collegiate_Institute" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Packer Collegiate Institute[/url]in[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Heights" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Brooklyn Heights[/url], New York, where she finished high school. Lowry entered[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Brown University[/url]in 1954. She attended for two years until her marriage at age 19 to Donald Lowry, a[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Navy" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">U.S. Navy[/url]officer, in 1956. Together they had four children: daughters Alix and Kristin, and sons Grey and Benjamin.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-autogenerated2-4" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[5][/url]
The Lowrys moved quite frequently in their early years of marriage due to Donald's military career. They lived in[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">California[/url],[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Connecticut[/url](where Alix was born),[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Florida[/url](where Grey was born),[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">South Carolina[/url], and finally[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Cambridge, Massachusetts[/url](where Kristin and Benjamin were born). The family settled in Cambridge after Donald left military service to attend Harvard Law School. After Donald Lowry finished law school, the family moved to[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Maine" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Portland, Maine[/url].[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-autogenerated2-4" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[5][/url]
As her children became older, Lowry found time to complete her degree in English literature from the University of Southern Maine[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-loislowry.com-5" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[6][/url]in Portland in 1972. After earning her B.A., she pursued graduate studies at her alma mater. It was during this coursework that she was introduced to photography, which became a life-long passion as well as a profession. Her specialty was child photography, but she also took pictures to accompany the articles she submitted as a freelance journalist. It was while working on a freelance journalism piece for[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbook" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Redbook[/url]magazine that Lowry got her first book opportunity, when the article she wrote caught the attention of an editor at[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Houghton Mifflin[/url]publishing. The story Lowry had written for the magazine was meant for adults but was written through the eyes of a child. The editor at Houghton Mifflin recognized an upcoming talent and suggested that Lowry write a children's book. She agreed and wrote[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_to_Die" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">A Summer to Die[/url]which was published in 1977. As Lowry nurtured her budding careers, she and Donald Lowry found they were no longer compatible; they divorced in 1977 when Lowry was 40 years old. Lowry said the following of these transitional years of her life: "My children grew up in Maine. So did I. I returned to college at the[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_Maine" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">University of Southern Maine[/url], got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled stories and poems in notebooks."[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-autogenerated1-3" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[4][/url]
Writing about both funny things and serious issues has sustained Lois Lowry through her own hard times. Her son Grey was killed in the crash of his fighter plane in 1995. Lowry has acknowledged that this was the most difficult day of her life, but through her steady work as an author, she has persevered. Lowry said, "His death in the cockpit of a warplane tore away a piece of my world. But it left me, too, with a wish to honor him by joining the many others trying to find a way to end conflict on this very fragile earth." Later, Ben and his wife have a baby named Grey Lowry to remember "Zane" Grey for his service to the airforce.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-autogenerated1-3" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[4][/url]
Today, Lois Lowry remains active by not only continuing to write and speaking at appearances, but also enjoying time at her homes in Massachusetts and Maine. Lois takes pleasure in reading, knitting, gardening, and entertaining her four grandchildren.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-autogenerated2-4" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[5][/url]
Lowry wrote of her hope for the future recently on her blog, "I am a grandmother now. For my own grandchildren - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another."[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-loislowry.com-5" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[6][/url]
Lowry has suggested that she is religious, but not so religious as "to have a favorite psalm."
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="gj_safe_a" style="word-wrap: break-word; outline-style: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">[7][/url]
Bibliography
The Giver Trilogy
The Anastasia Series The Sam Series The Tates Series - 1983 The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline
- 1985 Switcharound
- 1990 Your Move, J.P.!
The Gooney Bird Series Autobiographical Others 接触Lois Lowry是从她的giver的三部曲开始的，觉得比较深奥，想象力丰富。偶尔发现绘本Crow Call，是她09年的作品。这让我想起了owl moon，虽然事情不同，但其中都洋溢着父女之间的快乐。
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[b]Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers Weekly [/b]
Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Lemony SnicketLois Lowry, who casts
her noble and enviable shadow wide across the landscape of children's
literature, from fantasy to realism, here turns her quick, sly gaze to
parody, a word which in this case means "a short novel mocking the
conventions of old-fashioned children's books stuffed with orphans,
nannies and long-lost heirs." These clichés are ripe if familiar
targets, but Ms. Lowry knocks off these barrel-dwelling fish with
admirable aplomb in The Willoughbys, in which two wicked parents cannot
wait to rid themselves of their four precocious children, and vice
versa, and vice versa versa, and so on. The nanny adds a spoonful of
sugar and a neighboring candy magnate a side order of Dahl, if you
follow me, as the book's lightning pace traipses through the hallmarks
of classic orphan literature helpfully listed in the bibliography, from
the baby on the doorstep to the tardy yet timely arrival of a crucial
piece of correspondence. The characters, too, find these tropes
familiar-"What would good old-fashioned people do in this situation?"
one asks-as does the omniscient, woolgathery narrator, who begins with
"Once upon a time" and announces an epilogue with "Oh, what is there to
say at the happy conclusion of an old-fashioned story?" This critic even
vaguely recognizes the stratagem of a glossary, in which the more
toothsome words are defined unreliably and digressively. (He cannot put
his finger on it, at least not in public.) Never you mind. The novel
does make a few gambits for anachronistic musings ("Oh goodness, do we
have to walk them into a dark forest? I don't have the right shoes for
that") and even wry commentary ("That is how we billionaires exist,"
says the man who is not Willy Wonka. "We profit on the misfortune of
others") but mostly the book plays us for laughs, closer to the Brothers
Zucker than the Brothers Grimm, and by my count the hits (mock German
dialogue, e.g., "It makesch me vant to womit") far outnumber the misses
(an infant named Baby Ruth, oy). There are those who will find that this
novel pales in comparison to Ms. Lowry's more straight-faced efforts,
such as The Giver. Such people are invited to take tea with the Bobbsey
Twins. Ms. Lowry and I will be across town downing something stronger
mixed by Anastasia Krupnik, whom one suspects of sneaking sips of Ms.
Lowry's bewitching brew. Tchin-tchin!Lemony Snicket is the author of A
Series of Unfortunate Events.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
[b]From School Library Journal [/b]
Grade 4–7—Lois Lowry's hilarious novel (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) is a
parody of "old-fashioned" children's books and features the requisite
uncaring and self-centered parents, orphans, nanny, and the like.
Timothy, the oldest of the Willoughby children, makes all the decisions
and the youngest, Jane, just wants to be more assertive. Twins Barnaby A
and Barnaby B, the middle children, are so alike that their parents
can't tell them apart even if they bothered to try. When the youngsters
find a beastly baby on their doorstep, they leave it at a rich
neighbor's house to get rid of it. The melancholy candy maker tycoon who
lives there adopts the baby and his life becomes happy after years of
grieving over the death of his wife and son in an avalanche in
Switzerland. Meanwhile, the Willoughby children concoct a plot to get
rid of their insufferable parents and turn themselves into orphans by
sending them on a dangerous trip. The nanny who comes to take care of
them turns out to be just what they need to bring out the best in their
personalities. The two stories intertwine when the children and the
nanny must find a new place to live and the long-lost son of the tycoon
makes his way home. A lengthy and humorous glossary at the end defines
old-fashioned words in the story (lugubrious, affable, etc.) with
examples and hints for proper use. Arte Johnson does a wonderful job of
narrating all the characters' diverse voices, enhancing the comedic
elements of the tale. This is a clever parody on classics such as James
and the Giant Peach and Pollyanna with wonderfully imperfect orphans and
memorable characters. Teresa Wittmann, Westgate Elementary School,
Edmonds, WA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or
unavailable edition of this title.