Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is an American writer of children’s and young adult books, known for novels including The Giver and Number the Stars.

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The Giver: Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel depicts a tightly controlled community through the experiences of a boy chosen to inherit its memories. This novel became Lowry’s best-known work and won the 1994 Newbery Medal.
Honolulu: Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii, located on the island of Oahu. Lowry was born in Honolulu in 1937, while her father served in the U.S. Army.
Newbery Medal: The Newbery Medal is an annual American award recognizing distinguished children’s books. Lowry won it for Number the Stars and The Giver.
Memory: Memory is the capacity to encode, retain, and retrieve information and experience. In The Giver, collective memory is entrusted to one person and withheld from the community.
Madeleine L'Engle: Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer of books for children and adults, including A Wrinkle in Time. Like Lowry, she wrote enduring speculative fiction for young readers.
Number the Stars: Lois Lowry’s 1989 novel follows a Danish girl helping her Jewish friend escape Nazi-occupied Denmark. This historical novel won Lowry her first Newbery Medal.
United States Army: The United States Army is the land warfare branch of the U.S. armed forces. Her father’s military career took the Lowry family to several places during her childhood.
The Giver (film): The Giver is a 2014 film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s novel, directed by Phillip Noyce. The adaptation brought the novel’s controlled society to a large film audience.
Holocaust literature: Holocaust literature comprises writing about the persecution and murder of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Number the Stars introduces young readers to the Holocaust through the Danish rescue of Jews.
Ursula K. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin was an American writer known for speculative fiction, including the Earthsea novels. Her imagined societies offer a useful comparison with Lowry’s fictional communities.