Janet Lambert

Born in Crawfordsville in 1893 to Francis and Mabel Lee Galey Snyder, Janet Lambert would grow to become one of the most prolific authors Crawfordsville has ever seen. Janet attended Crawfordsville High School and Ferry Hall School, a girl’s preparatory school in Lake Forest, Illinois. Upon graduation, she headed to New York to pursue an acting career and made it to Broadway, where she met her future husband, Craig Kent Lambert. Lambert's writing career began by telling bedtime stories to her daughters, and when her children had grown, she would put those stories to paper, with her first book, Star-Spangled Summer, being published in 1941. She would go on to publish 54 books from 1941-1969, entertaining and shaping the lives of her many adoring fans.