Military Academy figures frequently in the lives of her characters, her husband did not attend West Point, gaining his officer training through the National Guard and mid-level Army schools such at the United States Army Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Lambert's life experience as an Army wife provided the background and settings for many of her books about the lives of teenage children of military officers. The couple had one daughter, Jeanne Anne Lambert (born 1919) who not unlike a character in her mother's books, did marry a West Point graduate, Lieutenant Dean Titus Vanderhoef (USMA 1940), at Fort Jay's post chapel on July 27, 1940. At the time of his retirement he was post commander of Fort Jay, Governors Island, in New York City. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1951 after 34 years active duty. In World War II, he saw service in North Africa, Anzio and China.
Kent, a brother of longtime Purdue basketball coach, Ward Lambert, was a 1913 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, He served in World War I and continued his Army career as a cavalry officer. She married Kent Craig Lambert (1891-1982) on January 1, 1918. Lambert was born Maude Janet "Dodi" Snyder December 12 or Decemin or near Crawfordsville, Indiana, the daughter of Francis Aloysius Snyder and Mabel Galey.
Army officers during World War II and the Korean War-era. Lambert's works, best known as the Penny and Tippy Parrish series, focused on the lives and the coming of age choices of the daughters of U.S. Janet Lambert was a playwright and author of 54 books of young adult fiction for girls from 1941 to 1969.
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