The couple had one daughter, Jeanne Anne Lambert (born 1918) who, much like a character in her mother's books, married a United States Military Academy graduate, Second Lieutenant Dean Titus Vanderhoef (USMA 1940), at Fort Jay's post chapel on July 27, 1940.īetween 19, Lambert published 54 books at a rate of about two per year, but is often omitted from discussions of early young adult romance literature by critics. Lambert performed on the Broadway stage in the years before and during World War I. A photograph of Janet and Kent's formal military farewell from Fort Jay and the Army illustrated the dust jacket of one of her books. His last posting was as post commander of Fort Jay, Governors Island, in New York City where he retired at the rank of colonel in 1951 after 34 years active duty. In World War II, he saw service in North Africa, Anzio and China. Serving in World War I, he continued his Army career as a cavalry officer. Kent, a brother of longtime Purdue basketball coach, Ward Lambert, was a 1913 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. She married Kent Craig Lambert (1891–1982) on January 1, 1918. Lambert was born Maude Janet 'Dodi' Snyder December 12 or 17, 1893 in or near Crawfordsville, Indiana, the daughter of Mabel Galey and Francis Leonidas Snyder. Army officers during World War II and the Korean War-era. Lambert's works, best known for the Penny and Tippy Parrish series, focused on the lives and coming-of-age choices of the wives and children, especially the daughters, of U.S. Janet Lambert (December 1893 – March 16, 1973) was an actress and the author of 54 young-adult fiction titles for girls from 1941 to 1969.

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Whoa Matilda by Janet Lambert