{"name": "Mary E. Lyons", "personal_name": "Mary E. Lyons", "key": "/authors/OL29710A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Mary E. Lyons is a former reading specialist and school librarian with twenty-three years of experience at all grade levels. She began sharing the lost stories of women and African Americans with young people in 1980. Now a full-time writer, her books are a way to continue what she began as a teacher. Her latest interests are Irish-American history and ancient history.\r\n\u2212*about the author,* [The Lyon's Den](https://lyonsdenbooks.com/aboutmel.htm).\r\n\r\nIn addition to her works for younger readers, she has also written several adult nonfiction books about the history of the Blue Ridge Railroad in Virginia."}, "birth_date": "1947", "alternate_names": ["Mary Evelyn Lyons"], "remote_ids": {"goodreads": "15154", "amazon": "B000APJDMQ", "wikidata": "Q93394148", "isni": "000000039570183X", "viaf": "13923338", "lc_naf": "n89672888", "gnd": "1195251270"}, "links": [{"title": "The Lyon's Den (author website)", "url": "https://lyonsdenbooks.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-07T08:17:53.032846"}}