Jane Lahr is an American author.

Lahr is the daughter of actor Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and Kansas farmworker Zeke in The Wizard of Oz, but was also well-known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway.-Early life:Lahr was born in New York City, of German-Jewish heritage...

, and sister of the New Yorker drama critic John Lahr

John Lahr

John Lahr is an American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...

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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, 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

Book of the Month Club

The Book of the Month Club is a United States mail-order book sales club that offers a new book each month to customers.The Book of the Month Club is part of a larger company that runs many book clubs in the United States and Canada. It was formerly the flagship club of Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc...

 and the Literary Guild. Welcome Books distributed by Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

 published her book Searching for Mary Magdalene: A Journey in Art & Literature in May 2006 which won a Independent Publisher Book Award

Independent Publisher Book Award

The Independent Publisher Book Awards , launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to titles published by independent authors and publishers...

 in the category of religion in 2007. In 2007 she co- edited Joan Grant

Joan Grant

Joan Grant was an author of historical novels and reincarnationist. Her first and most famous novel was Winged Pharaoh . Grant shot to unexpected fame upon publication...

- Speaking from the Heart: Ethics, Reincarnation & What it Means to Be Human. She is partner in a book packaging/agenting company Lahr & Partners, LLC.

Lahr was married to theater critic Martin Gottfried. She is now 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.