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In Memoriam: Margaret (Mimi) Lamb
1936-2011
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Margaret Lamb grew up in the small farming town of Michigan City, North Dakota, the eldest of seven children. At 18, she took the long train trip to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation she moved to New York, a city she loved, and over the years earned an M.A. and Ph.D. at NYU, joined the English department at Fordham University/Lincoln Center and married Fred Garel, an activist for the poor, who died in 2006. Lamb, was a professor, playwright, novelist and essayist. She taught at Fordham for 35 years.
Margaret Lamb wrote two published books, Antony and Cleopatra on the English Stage and Chains of Gold, a mystery novel. Her short stories and non-fiction were featured in numerous publications, such as the New York Times, the Yale Review, Western Humanities Review, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen. She wrote five plays, including “Monkey Music,” which was performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1980. As an associate professor at Fordham, she taught courses primarily on drama—Shakespeare through modern—as well as fiction writing, literary magazine production, film studies, and women's literature.
A learned, witty, generous woman, Mimi Lamb is dearly remembered by her family, friends, and many students.
A memorial service was held for Mimi Lamb in the Lowenstein Center chapel on the Lincoln Center campus of Fordam University on April 14, 2011.
Biography from the Sunday New York Times and The Observer (London).
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