Lois Lowry has four kids and she lives in Cambridges Massachettes. She didn't start writting professally intil her mid-30's. At the age of 17 Lowry attended Brown unniversity where she majored in writting. At the age of 19 she got married. She had four children before the age of 25. Around that time she went back to school and got her unergraduate degree from the university of Maine.