Background
He was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Portuguese Arthur, Texas.
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Grant Lyons
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He attended Tulane University on a football scholarship, and he has a Master"s degree in Library Science as well as in History.
Career
As documented in all biographies of Janis Joplin, he was the person who played Janis her first Lead Belly record, which is considered a formative influence on her style of singing. Lyons published primarily children"s nonfiction books, most of which focused on North American Indian tribes and all of which were published by the now defunct publisher Julian Messener. Lyons has also written fiction for adults.
His most significant publication to date was the anthology called 4-4-4 (1977), in which four of his short stories appeared in a book with four short stories by Laurence Gonzales and four short stories by Roger Rath, published by the University of Missouri Press Lyons has had short stories published in Cimarron Review, Confrontation, Negative Capability, Northwest Review, Redbook, and Seattle Review.
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Lyons is also the grandson of Captain Ulysses Grant Lyons, who ran and was briefly pronounced winner of a United States. house of Representatives seat, before Earl Beshlin was eventually named the winner. His earliest book was Tales That People Tell In Mexico (1972), and later ones include Andy Jackson and the battles for New Orleans (1976), The Creek Indians (1978), Mustangs, Six Shooters, and Barbed Wire: How the West Was Really Won (1981), and Pacific Coast Indians of North America (1983).
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American