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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver. Her first novel, A Summer to Die, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine.
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What were your inspirations for Gossamer?
I'm so interested, always, in how the bits and pieces of our lives go
together, how they form a narrative, and how important they are to us. My son
died when his little girl was not yet two. She's twelve now, and she asks me
often, ‘Tell me stories about my dad when he was little.' She giggles at the
when-your-dad-was-naughty stories. But she knows intuitively that the narrative
of his life is also a valuable part of her own.
Of course, I dealt with that, the importance of our memories, in a book
called The Giver, and in the personal memoir called Looking Back,
as well. But thoughts about memory were haunting me, still, when I sat down to
write the book that would be called Gossamer.
Do you remember your dreams?
Some. Especially those that recur. I even have a favorite, in fact: so much
so that when it recurs I actually think—while deep asleep—"Oh, great, this dream
again! I love it!" But at the same time, I suppose that, like most people, most
of what I dream disappears on waking. If that weren't true, the whole concept of
dreams would not be so endlessly fascinating and mysterious.
(I'd tell you what that ...
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