Wendy Lamb has had a long career publishing children’s books. After graduating the Radcliffe College Publishing Course, she joined Harper Junior Books and then Viking Junior Books. To devote more time to her own writing, she freelanced for several years as a consulting editor for Delacorte Press before joining the company full-time in 1996. Lamb wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Juba (composer: Russel Walden), produced in 1991 at New York’s Dimson Theater.
In 2002, Lamb began publishing books under her own imprint, Wendy Lamb Books at Random House Children’s Books, building a list that includes Newbery Medal winners Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis and When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. In 2019, Lamb stepped down from her position as vice president and publishing director of WLB, to focus on the editorial side of children’s books. She is married to Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and MacDowell Board member Paul Moravec.
Portrait by Michael Lionstar
