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By John Walters on Wednesday, August 4, 2004.

Mary Lyn Ray is the author of several children's books, including Shaker Boy, Pianna, and Arvuh and Arvilla. She was a Fellow at Winterthur Museum, where she studied American crafts like Taghkanic basket making. Her latest book is Welcome Brown Bird. It's about the lives of two boys who are united by a migrating songbird. Mary Lyn lives on an old farm in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

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