Mary E. Lyons
Autor de Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
Sobre El Autor
Mary E. Lyons is the author of many acclaimed and award-winning books that bring to life the people and places of history. Among them are: Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs; The Poison Place; and Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies. Mary E. Lyons is a mostrar más former librarian and reading teacher. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Paul Collinge mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Mary E. Lyons
Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers (African-American Artists and Artisans) (1993) 78 copias
Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans) (1993) 26 copias
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) (1994) 14 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Lyons, Mary E.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th c.
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Georgia, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- Ocupaciones
- writer
teacher - Organizaciones
- Sweet Briar College
University of Virginia
Virginia Center for the Humanities and Public Policy - Biografía breve
- Mary E. Lyons, a former teacher and librarian, became a full-time writer in 1993. She is the author of nineteen books for young readers published by Scribner, Atheneum, Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin and Oxford University Press. Born and raised in the American South, she holds dual Irish and US citizenships. She and her husband, Paul, are members of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation and live in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans) (2nd Edition – 20425)
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) (2nd Edition – 20425)
Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers (African-American Artists and Artisans) (2nd Edition – 20425)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 22
- Miembros
- 1,198
- Popularidad
- #21,436
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 24
- ISBNs
- 53
- Idiomas
- 1
The book includes a bibliography but the true sources of information are the original accounts of which the University College in Dublin Ireland granted her access.
Some of the accounts are truly traumatic, like mass graves, mother's carrying dead infants, and the lengths people would go to get a bite of food. The author shares these stories with the reader in the hopes of bringing attention to an underdocumented blight in European history. Over one million people died during the years 1846 to 1852 yet not one known photo exists. I am the granddaughter of Irish immigrants and I appreciate the author's passion for telling this story.… (más)