The Boston Globe, December 20th, 1998
Children's author Lois Lowry, 61, of Cambridge, shares her past in Looking Back. Her 25 books -- 15 million are in print -- include Autumn Street and the Anastasia Krupnik series. You've written about death, the Holocaust, a teenage mom. Have your books aroused any hostility? The American Library Association puts out a list each year of banned and challenged books, and I've been on it several years for the same book, The Giver. And it's still number one on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for young people. It's challenged by conservative groups. What's the objection to it? It's unclear. S...
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