Lewis. She began her career as an author for young adults when a Houghton Mifflin editor read one of Lowry's published short stories about her childhood and asked if she would be interested in writing books for children. Her first novel,
A Summer to Die (1977), was inspired by her sister's death from cancer in her twenties. The publication of the book marked a period of auspicious beginnings and endings for Lowry. The novel was well received, and she was divorced in 1977 after twenty-one years of marriage.
Lowry now has an apartment on Beacon Hill in Boston and a 150-year-old farmhouse in rural New Hampshire. Her realistic novels, replete with vivid remembrances of her own childhood, reflect a love for the feelings of the past as well as an enthusiasm for the here-and-now drawn from observations of her children.
Although she postponed her childhood aspiration to be a novelist as long as "there were children to raise, education to complete, experience to learn from, and losses to mourn," her varied experiences contribute a rich diversity of themes to her fiction.
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