Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author of young adult and children's fiction, best known for *The Giver* (1993), a dystopian novel about a society that has eliminated pain and memory.
Her work often explores difficult themes—death, disability, the Holocaust—with clarity and restraint.
She has won the Newbery Medal twice, for *Number the Stars* (1990) and *The Giver*.
- JonasHebrew prophet, whale-swallowed
- dystopiaImaginary terrible society
- memoriesStored past experiences
- memory transferMoving stored experiences elsewhere
- samenessState of being identical
precise language · release · birth mother · children · young adult · young adult fiction · coming of age · children's literature · Number the Stars · messenger · son · community · assignment · elsewhere · bicycle · apple · color · climate control
- Authors LC.S. Lewis, Harper Lee, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Dystopian AuthorsGeorge Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins
- Ohio WritersToni Morrison, James Thurber, Mary Oliver
- Utopian ThinkersThomas More, Plato, William Morris
Lois LowryJames Joyce
Thomas Pynchon · William Faulkner · David Foster Wallace · Finnegans Wake
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