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* Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersburg[2] on March 20, 1937) is an author of children's literature who has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice: first for Number the Stars in 1990, and again in 1994 for The Giver, a widely-known and controversial work.(위키피디아 출처 중)

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I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination. 저는 언제나 느껴왔지요 운이 좋다라고 셋 중 가운데 아이로 태어나서. 언니인 헬렌은 우리 엄마와 아주 비슷해서, 엄마처럼 온화하고, 가족 중심적이고 남을 즐겁게 해주는데 열심이었죠. 동생잔은 유일한 남아였고 아빠랑 뭔가 함께 하는데에 관심을 가졌었죠 ; 함께 언제나 전기기차나 조립세트 만드는데에, 그리고 나중에 잔이 좀더 컸을 때는 자동차 본넷 뚜껑을 열고는 그 안을 들여다보며 머리를 맞대고 뭔가를 하는 것처럼 보였죠. 그것이 저를 있는 그대로 내버려두게 되었고 저는 가장 원하는 '혼자서'를 얻게 되었죠. 저는 책과 더불어 생생한 상상력의 세계에서 살았던 고독한 아이였죠.
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Because my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. 아빠가 직업군인 장교-치과군의관-였기에 덕분에 전세계에서 살게 되었죠. 하와이에서 태어났고, 뉴욕으로 이사가 살기도 했었고, 2차 세계대전 몇년동안은 엄마의 고향인 펜실배니아의 Carlisle에서 살다가 11살이 되던 해에는 도꾜로 건너갔었죠. 고등학교는 뉴욕에서 다녔고 브라운 대학에 다닐 때 쯤에는 우리 가족은 워싱턴디씨에서 살게 되었답니다.

d nineteen - just finished my sophomore year in college - when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires. California. Connecticut (a daughter born there). Florida (a son). South Carolina. Finally Cambridge, Massachusetts, when my husband left the service and entered Harvard Law School (another daughter; another son) and then to Maine - by now with four children under the age of five in tow.

My children grew up in Maine. So did I. I returned to college at the University of Southern Maine, got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled stories and poems in notebooks. 아이들은 메인주에서 성장했고 저도 그랬죠. 남부메인에 있는 대학에 다시 들어가 학위를 따고 대학원에 진학했고 마침내 전문적으로 글을 쓰기 시작했네요. 어렸을 때 공책에 시나 이야기를 끊임없이 끄적였던 때부터 언제가 꿈꿔왔던 글쓰기를요.

After my marriage ended in 1977, when I was forty, I settled into the life I have lived ever since. Today I am back in Cambridge, Massachusetts, living and writing in a house dominated by a very shaggy Tibetan Terrier named Bandit. For a change of scenery Martin and I spend time in Maine, where we have an old (it was built in 1768!) farmhouse on top of a hill. In Maine I garden, feed birds, entertain friends, and read..

1977년, 40세 되던해에 이혼을 한후 틀에 박힌 생활을 하게 되죠. 지금 저는 메사추세츠주 캠브리지에 다시 돌아와 있고 Bandit라는 이름을 가진, 덥수룩한 티벳테리어에 점거당한 집에서 글쓰며 살고 있죠. 풍경의 변화를 위해 마틴과 저는 메인주에서 언덕 꼭대기에 1768년에 지어진 오래된 농장에서 시간을 보냈었죠. 그곳에서 정원을 가꾸고, 새도 키우고 친구들도 즐겁게 해주며, 책을 읽으며...

My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.

The Giver - and Gathering Blue, and the newest in the trilogy: Messenger - take place against the background of very different cultures and times. Though all three are broader in scope than my earlier books, they nonetheless speak to the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment.

My older son was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. His death in the cockpit of a warplane tore away a p***e of my world. But it left me, too, with a wish to honor him by joining the many others trying to find a way to end conflict on this very fragile earth.

I am a grandmother now. For my own grandchildren - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another.