Margins
548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2026 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved
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, Mary Lyons lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Paul. Her publications for adults include The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia (History Press, 2014) and The Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad (History Press, 2015.)
A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies
2000
Irish Memories of the Great Hunger
2002
1995
The Story of Joseph Jacobs
2007
The Story of Harriet Jacobs
1992
Minnie Evans, Visionary Artist
1996
African-American Tales of the Supernatural
1991
2005
The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
1990
The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter
1993
The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers
1993
1997