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"METICULOUS means extremely precise and careful, Surgeons have to be meticulous. Some people think great cooks are meticulous, but they are wrong. Great cooks read a recipe, maybe, but then they ignore the instructions and add extra garlic if they feel like it. Surgeons can't do that." Bibliography: __The Giver,__ Lowry, Lois Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lowry taught herself to read and write, her life at home as a child made it easy with her mother and father reading and telling them stories all the time. Lowry was a very smart girl and was ahead of all of the other students at her school and was even able to skip second grade. After high school, Lowry attended Brown University which had offered her a scholarship and acceptance into its honors writing program. By the age of twenty-five, she had had four
 * Lois Lowry **

children, and had dropped out of collage to marry Donald Lowry. When her youngest child started attending school, Lowry continued her education at the University of Southern Maine where she earned her BA and started her Masters degree. After Lowry had finished collage she started writing articles for the paper and many magazines. This wasn’t enough for Lowry and she started to write her first novel //A Summer to Die// this book had been inspired by the death of her own sister which earner Lowry much acclaim. With success in career, however, came failure in marriage. The same year her book was published, Lowry's marriage to Donald Lowry ended. After the divorce Lowry started writing even more she wrote the novels Autumn Street, the series Anastasia krupnik, number the stars which she won a Newbery Award for, and the giver. //The Giver// was a book about the future. It earned Lowry her second Newbery Medal in 1994. Upon receiving the award, Lowry explained that some of her life experiences and events had led her to the writing of the novel. There were specific events in her life such as a trip to Germany and a visit to her father in a nursing home that had led her to think about issues such as pain, memories, and choices-themes that run throughout //The Giver.// 