Which author wrote the 1994 Newbery Medal-winning book 'The Giver'?

Lois Lowry wrote The Giver, which won the 1994 Newbery Medal.

The Giver is a dystopian young-adult novel first published in 1993. It follows Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy living in a tightly controlled community that has eliminated pain, war, strong emotion, and most individual choice through a system called Sameness. Jonas is selected to become the Receiver of Memory and begins learning the hidden history of humanity from the older man known as the Giver.

The novel’s central tension comes from its question about whether safety and uniformity are worth the loss of freedom, love, color, and emotional depth. Its Newbery recognition made Lowry one of the award’s notable repeat winners: she had previously won in 1990 for Number the Stars, a historical novel about the Danish resistance during World War II.

Readers sometimes confuse the 1994 award year with the book’s 1993 publication year. The other names listed are also prominent children’s authors, but none wrote The Giver. The novel later became the first book in the loosely connected Giver Quartet.