Chapter 26 Appendix Meet Lois Lowry

Lois Laurie was born in Hawaii in March 1937. Her father was a dentist in the army, and her family moved with the army all over the world.She lived with her grandparents in Pennsylvania during World War II, and in Japan between the age of eleven and high school.She later attended Brown University, but married after only two years of study, and did not resume her studies until she had four children, graduating from the University of Southern Maine. Lois Lowry's writing career started late, trying to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a writer when she was forty.The result was a blockbuster, and now she is not only a world-renowned writer, but also affirmed by two Newbery Gold Medals.In addition to writing children's novels and short stories, she also writes reviews and professional essays.

Her writing materials are very extensive and diverse in style, including life humor novel "Anastasia Krupnik", "Number the Stars" about war and massacre, and "Number the Stars" about the future utopian society ( The Giver, and more than two dozen books on adoption, mental illness, cancer, and more, is a versatile and versatile writer. In fact, she is a person who knows how to live a good life. She is eager to learn, reads a lot of books, and likes knitting, bridge and gardening in her spare time.In addition, she is also a culinary expert and has collected various recipe books.In addition to the title of writer, she is also a professional photographer. Through the unique insight of a writer, she conceives frames of images with depth.

Lois Lowry's second Newbery Award-winning science fiction novel was inspired by her childhood experience living in Japan.During those days, due to the deliberate protection of her parents, she lived exactly the same life as when she was in the United States, regardless of clothing, food, and education.Although this kind of life is comfortable and comfortable, it also lacks the stimulation and surprise of contacting foreign cultures.So as an adult, she has been thinking, is living in an environment where everything is well controlled and life is worry-free, can you be happy? Lois Laurie tries to make readers think about this issue with the protagonist in the book, and focusing on the various imperfect lives and interpersonal relationships faced by teenagers is where she succeeds.