Beebe Steven Lynk (1872–1948)[1] served as the professor of medical Latin botany and materia medica at the University of West Tennessee.

[5] Based on Lynk's future career, we can assume that she received her degree from Lane College in teaching.

[6] The University of West Tennessee was founded by her husband Miles Lynk in 1900 in the town of Jackson, TN but was then moved to Memphis in 1907.

Her book reflected the organization's mission of advancing the status of African-American women through education and respectability.

[6] In 1919, Mrs. Lynk published a school textbook titled A Complete Course in Hair Straightening and Beauty Culture[9].

In the preface of the textbook she mentions her hope that the information would provide success, happiness, and prosperity to women.