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Lois Lowry was born in Hawaii in 1937, where her father was stationed in the United States Army. Her mother was a school teacher, and she had two siblings.

After the advent of WWII, Lois' mother moved her children to New York, quickly followed by another move to Pennsylvania to be near her family. Lois learned to read by the time she was three, decided she wanted to become a novelist while in high school, and even graduated from high school when she was sixteen-years-old.

Lois left college at the age of nineteen to marry, didn't not get her college degree until she was thirty-seven-years-old, and has been writing novels ever since. Herfirst published novel was A Summer to Die.