On the phone from Boston, Lois Lowry calls her latest novel The Birthday Ball a “silly little book,” wonders if she should have expanded the last section of her novel The Giver, and asks if the new ...

Author Lois Lowry spends her days with her Tibetian Terrier, Alfie, looking out over her bird feeder in Felmouth, Maine. Lowry, 80 next month, sits by her laptop, where she still writes children’s ...

In her new book, The Windeby Puzzle, two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry combines both narrative history and fiction to imagine the life of an adolescent child from the first century whose remains ...

Since its publication in 1993, "The Giver" has become one of many simultaneously beloved and banned books of children's literature. But nearly 20 years after her first foray into the colorless and ...

Lois Lowry has written more than 40 books and won the Newbery Medal twice — for The Giver and Number the Stars — but she's never written a story in verse until now. On the Horizon is about two pivotal ...

For more than 30 years, two-time Newbery-Medal winner Lois Lowry has been writing books for young people. Some are serious, and others are funny. Some tell about the past, while others take place in ...

The Library of Congress hosted its 16th annual National Book Festival in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Sept. 24. The free, public, one-day event boasted book signings by 120 authors ...

This Tuesday, the multi-award-winning children’s author will help the Associates of the Boston Public Library ring in 20 years of supporting emerging writers. For 20 years, the Associates of the ...

A long line of talented authors has fostered a vibrant literary scene in Maine, with lots of support from our state’s community of avid readers. So it should come as no surprise that Maine boasts the ...

I recently had the chance to chat with Lois Lowry about the new book, which is set to hit stores on March 31. Q: "The Willoughbys" was completely different from all of your other books. Where did you ...