[1] Lynds was born Beverly Ann Turner[2] in Shreveport, Louisiana, on August 19, 1929.
[citation needed] Lynds worked as an associate of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1987, and also served as the Sky Math liaison for the Unidata program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research since 1991.
[citation needed] On June 19, 1954, she married fellow University of California, Berkeley astronomy graduate student Clarence Roger Lynds.
[5] In 1959, Lynds published the textbook Elementary Astronomy, co-authored with Otto Struve and Helen Pillans.
[6] Her works include Dark Nebulae, Globules, and Protostars (1987)[7] and numerous papers.