George Ella Lyon (born April 25, 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky)[1] is an American author from Kentucky, who has published in many genres, including picture books, poetry, juvenile novels, and articles.
George Ella Lyon was born April 25, 1949, in Harlan, Kentucky, a coal mining town in southeastern Kentucky, to Robert Vernon Jr. and Gladys (née Fowler) Hoskins.
[1] In 1983, Lyon published her first writing, a poetry collection called Mountain.
She has also acted as an executive committee member for the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.
In an article in The Reading Teacher, Sylvia Pantaleo notes that Lyon's A Day at Damp Camp bears characteristics of Dresang's Radical Change theory by having a nonlinear story, which artist Peter Catalanotto loops back to the beginning through the illustrations, images, and text within boxes that resemble "hypertext Web links".