Lois Lowry was born in 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Because her father was a career army officer, Lowry moved around as a child. She lived in several different countries including Japan. She attended Brown University, where she was a writing major, but left college before graduation to get married. Lowry's marriage did not last, but she had four children who became inspirational in her work. She finished her college degree at the University of Maine and worked as a housekeeper to earn a living. Lowry worked as a photographer and she also wrote textbooks. For her first novel, A Summer to Die, Lowry received the International Reading Association Children's Book Award in 1978. Number the Stars is one of more than twenty young adult novels Lowry has written. Number the Stars was abased on actuall avents, but Lowry added her on fictional take to it.

Source: Lowry, Lois. "Biography." Lois Lowry. Interact, 2011. Web. 27 May 2011.
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