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A Haunting Home Movie Inspired Lois Lowry To Write 'On The Horizon'
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A Haunting Home Movie Inspired Lois Lowry To Write 'On The Horizon'

The film, made in 1939 or 1940, shows Lowry as a child playing on the beach, with a ship in the distance. She later learned it was the USS Arizona, which sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A Haunting Home Movie Inspired Lois Lowry To Write 'On The Horizon'

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Lois Lowry Says 'The Giver' Was Inspired By Her Father's Memory Loss

Lois Lowry says she didn't think of The Giver as "futuristic or dystopian or science fiction or fantasy" — it was just a story about a kid making sense of a complicated world. Matt McKee/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hide caption

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Lois Lowry Says 'The Giver' Was Inspired By Her Father's Memory Loss

Lowry's father didn't have Alzheimer's but as he began to forget his past, the author says, she began to imagine a book about eliminating painful memories. The Giver has just been adapted into a film.

Lois Lowry Says 'The Giver' Was Inspired By Her Father's Memory Loss

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Lowry Spins Mischievous Tale Of 'The Willoughbys'

The Willoughbys is a wickedly wonderful story by award-winning writer Lois Lowry. The book tells the tale of a mother and father who want to be rid of their children, but whose kids also want to be rid of their parents.

Lowry Spins Mischievous Tale Of 'The Willoughbys'

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Summer's Most Magical Form of Transport: Books

Here's a way to travel, without suffering the high prices of fuel these days: Read one of Alan Cheuse's summer reading book picks. One of them is bound to move you someplace beyond your beach chair.

Summer's Most Magical Form of Transport: Books

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