Page Lambert
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Campbell County High School, Gillette, Wyoming
I. Biography
Little can be found about the life that Page Lambert has experienced. This is due to the fact that she writes about her life experiences in her autobiographical books. It is known that she, her husband Mark, and their two children moved from Colorado to Sundance, Wyoming. When they moved there she took up a job at the Sundance bank, but a few years ago she quit in order to focus on her writing full-time. Her hard work is shown in her two published books: In Search of Kinship and Shifting Stars. She is currently living in Sundance working on her next work.
II. Professional Life and Regional Influences
"Page Lambert's stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Parabola, and Cow Country. Her work has been aired on Wyoming Public Radio and in 1993, she was given sole honorable mention in the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award." ( Jacket Biography from "In Search of Kinship") She has also had numerous essays published in Readers Digest and The Christian Science Monitor which have been reprinted in various other magazines.
Page has been influenced by the land around her and the knowledge she has received from the history of the tribes who lived on the land in the past. She also had the impact of five generations of farmers behind her as well.
III. Literary Works
Book review for Page Lambert's first book,
In Search of Kinship
"When she and her husband moved their young family north to Wyoming from Colorado, they transplant five generations of family roots to new soil but find that it is ancient land....
Page Lambert is an authentic voice of this land and in telling her story, she tells a story of the west. In writing about loss of heritage and the quest to find in anew, she speaks of
ranching traditions and Native American beliefs that go back many generations... As she and her family face heartbreak and ultimately prevail, Lambert finds balance and strength
from the one unbending link to the future: the land itself."(Barnes and Noble)
Book review for Page Lambert's second book, Shifting Stars "Skye Macdonal lived in a special world where her mixed blood was a blessing, a loving symbol of her parents' union... She learned the way of the Highlanders and the Lakota. But the steel-springed lunge of a mountain lion took her mother from her, starting her on a journey toward a destiny she could never have imagined... Macdonald takes his daughter to the summer camp of Turtle Woman's band, where Skye could learn from her grandmother of womanhood... Her mother's people believe that her birth under a comet, one of the 'Shifting Stars,' makes her the 'great warrior' of the prophecy... She learns that to be a woman warrior has little to do with fighting, and everything to do with spirit." (Barnes and Noble)
IV. List of Works
In Search of Kinship
Shifting Stars
This essay was submitted by students of Nathel Coca, a teacher at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming.