Interview with ‘The Giver’ author Lois Lowry

It's no surprise that Lois Lowry is such a prolific writer. The longtime Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident recalls spending her childhood as a voracious reader of all kinds of books, especially adult books that had young protagonists. She read and loved "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" when she was 10, and fell under the spell of "The Catcher in the Rye" not long after.Lowry, a chipper 77, crossed the river from Cambridge to Boston last week to talk about her young adult novel "The Giver," a [...]