About Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry was born as the middle child of a three kid family. Her older sister was named Helen and her younger brother was Jon. She was born and Hawaii. Since her father was in the military she traveled all over the world. She married while in college and had four children. She soon started writing professionally. After she got divorced, she wrote her first book about the death of her sister. The book was called A Summer to Die. A while after the death of her sister her son died. Now she is a grandmother. She still writes and enjoys writing fantasy. In her books the meaning is that we must have interdependence not only with each other but with the world and its enviornment.