Barbara Pitney Lamb

1904 – 1997

Barbara Pitney Lamb (1904 - 1997) was an American author. Born in Morristown, N.J., in 1904, she graduated from Westover School, Middlebury, Conn and Bryn Mawr College. Served as editor of the United Nations News 1945-49 before being invited to be a delegate to a conference on Indo-American Relations in New Delhi, India. She made nine lengthy trips to India observing and taking photographs and wrote four books on India. Exhibits of her photographs on Indian architecture and village life were sho