Lois Lowry

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.