- Date Of Birth: January 3, 1955
- Date Of Death: February 2, 2021
- Resting Place: Anchorage
- City: Boston
- State: Massachusetts
Shawn Lyons passed away in Anchorage, Alaska, on Feb. 2, 2021.
He was born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 3, 1955, the fourth of six children, and had lived in Anchorage for the past three decades. Shawn was an avid hiker, musician, poet, photographer, and a published writer, perhaps best known for his Walk-About Guides to Alaska.
He was an armchair historian and classic literature aficionado who often ventured out to the Chugach Mountains and beyond.
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