Lowry and her family lived in Carlisle again in 1950, where she attended freshman high school before moving to Governors Island, New York, where Lowry attended Curtis High School, on Staten Island. She returned to the United States to attend high school. Lowry attended seventh and eighth grades at The American School in Japan, a school for dependents of those involved in the military. Lowry began reading at three years old, which allowed her to skip the first grade when she started school at age six in Carlisle at the Franklin School.Īfter World War II, Lowry moved with her family to Tokyo, Japan, where her father was stationed from 1948 to 1950. They relocated in 1942 to her mother's hometown in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during World War II. Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to Brooklyn, New York, in 1939, when Lowry was two years old. Lowry's father was an army dentist, whose work moved the family all over the United States and to many parts of the world. Helen died of cancer in 1962, but Lowry and her brother still share a close relationship. She has an older sister named Helen, and a younger brother called Jon.
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