Megan Dowd Lambert is an American author and academic who writes children's books and about children and reading.
Lambert was born in Vermont.[1]
She graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996 and from Simmons College with a Master of Arts degree in 2002.[1]
She worked at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has been a senior lecturer at Simmons University in Boston since 2009. She has been a visiting lecturer at Mt. Holyoke College and Boston University. She has contributed reviews to The Horn Book Magazine.[1]
Lambert has published books for children as well as adult nonfiction about reading with children.[2][1]
She received a Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor in 2016 for her picture book A Crow of His Own.[1]
Lambert has seven children. She has written about her experiences as a foster and adoptive parent.[2][3]