Register Staff Report
BEREA —
BEREA — On Friday at 8 p.m., the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College will celebrate the summer 2010 issue of Appalachian Heritage with a featured reading by acclaimed author George Ella Lyon. The program will be conducted in the Appalachian Center Gallery. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Appalachian Heritage is a literary quarterly that demonstrates Berea College’s commitment to scholarship and to its region. Founded in Eastern Kentucky in 1973, it has been published by Berea College since 1985. Each issue of the magazine is celebrated with a featured author reading.
A Harlan County native and prolific writer who has authored and edited 40 books, including more than two dozen children’s books, Lyon has received critical acclaim for her works for all ages. Lyon has won numerous awards, including the 1989 Golden Kite Award, given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, for “Borrowed Children,” the Book of the Year Award, given by Appalachian Writers Association, for “Catalpa,” and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for “Who Came Down that Road?”
Lyon frequently visits schools and leads writing workshops to “show children, teens and adults the wealth of their own stories, to share the joy of creating, and to demonstrate that writing is a process,” says Lyon.
A Lexington resident, Lyon earned her bachelor’s degree from Centre College where she studied music and English. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Arkansas and her doctorate degree from Indiana University.
