Lois Lowry is an author who was born in Hawaii on March 20, 1937. She has written many Children’s and Young Adult books, including Number The Stars, the Anastasia Krupnik series, and one of my all-time favorites, The Giver.

Lowry won the Newbery Award for U.S. Children’s Literature in 1990 (for Number the Stars) and 1994 (for The Giver). She also received the Margaret Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature” in 2007.

Interesting Wikipedia fact: The Giver is one of the most challenged or banned library books of all time in the U.S.