“The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.”

American writer

Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer best known for her books for children and young adults. Her work includes The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, the Anastasia series, and Rabble Starkey. She is noted for taking on difficult subject matter in writing for younger readers, often through dystopian settings and other complex themes. Her books have reached a wide audience across children’s and young adult literature.