- Jane Lahr
Jane Lahr is the daughter of actor
Bert Lahr and sister to the "New Yorker" drama criticJohn Lahr .Lahr's career began at
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , where she pioneered the area of Special Sales and became Director of Advertising Publicity and Promotion. She left to help co-found Stewart, Tabori & Chang where she was pivotal in the packaging and marketing of "Grand Mother Remembers" (2 million copies in print) and co- edited with Lena Tabori - "Love a Celebration in Art & Literature" - now in its 24th year in publication.Books Lahr packaged include: Jean Howard’s Hollywood and Only the Best. She edited The Celtic Quest a selection of both the
Book of the Month Club and the Literary Guild. Welcome Books distributed byRandom House published her book Searching for Mary Magdalene: A Journey in Art & Literature in May of 2006 which won aIndependent Publisher Book Award in the category of religion in 2007. In 2007 she co- editedJoan Grant - Speaking from the Heart: Ethics, Reincarnation & What it Means to Be Human. She is partner in a book packaging/agenting company LTD Editions.Lahr is married to Sherman E. Crites of Stonington CT and St. Louis MO and has a daughter Maya Lahr Gottfried who is also a writer.
Lahr is on the Board of Directors of The School of Images – NYC – a school founded by Dr. Catherine Shainberg in 1982 and devoted to advancing awareness of the Imagination as the foremost language for instantaneous insight and transformation.
Bibliography
*"Grandmother Remembers" by Judith Levy, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1983 (ISBN 978-0-94143432-4)
*"Love a Celebration in Art & Literature" by Jane Lahr and Lena Tabori, Stewart Tabori & Chang 1981 (ISBN 978-1-58479112-6)
*"The Celtic Quest" edited by Jane Lahr, Welcome Books, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-59962045-9)
*"Speaking from the Heart: Ethics, Reincarnation & What it Means to Be Human" by Joan Grant, Overlook Press (ISBN 978-1-58567898-3)
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