Lyon, George Ella

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LYON, George Ella

LYON, George Ella. (George Ella Vernon). American, b. 1949. Genres: Novels, Children's fiction, Young adult fiction. Career: University of Kentucky, Lexington, instructor in English and creative writing, 1977-; Centre College of Kentucky, visiting assistant professor, 1979-80, writer in residence, 1985; Transylvania University, lecturer, 1984-86; Radford University, visiting faculty, 1986. Publications: POETRY: Mountain, 1983; Growing Light, 1987; Catalpa, 1993. YOUNG ADULT NOVELS: Borrowed Children, 1988; Red Rover, Red Rover, 1989; Here and Then, 1994. PICTURE BOOKS: Father Time and the Day Boxes, 1985; A Regular Rolling Noah, 1986; A B Cedar: An Alphabet of Trees, 1989; Together, 1989; Come a Tide, 1990; Basket, 1990; Cecil's Story, 1991; The Outside Inn, 1991; Who Came Down That Road, 1992; Dreamplace, 1993; Mama Is a Miner, 1994; Five Live Bongos, 1995; A Day at Damp Camp, 1996; Ada's Pal, 1996; A Wordful Child, 1996; A Sign, 1998; Counting on the Woods: A Poem, 1998; A Traveling Cat, 1998; One Lucky Girl, 2000. OTHER: Braids (play), 1985; Choices: Stories for Adult New Readers, 1989; (ed. with B.H. Baber and G. Norman) Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project, 1994; With a Hammer for My Heart (novel), 1997; Where I'm from, Where Poems Come From, 1999. Address: 913 Maywick Dr, Lexington, KY 40504-3121, U.S.A.