Children's author who won Newberry Awards for Number the Stars and The Giver.
She was passionate about photography and worked as a professional photographer as well as a writer.
She is the author of a trilogy about a dystopian society where people are colorblind and feelings are taken away.
Married Donald Lowry in 1956, the couple had two daughters and two sons together.
She is a female American author like Emily Dickinson.
