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Harold Albert Lamb (1892–1962) was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist. He was born in Alpine, New Jersey to Eliza Rollinson and Frederick Lamb and was the nephew of the architect Charles Rollinson Lamb. He attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began. Lamb’s tutors at Columbia included Carl Van Doren and John Erskine. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for twelve months, starting on April 1, 1929.
Lamb built a career with his writing from an early age. He got his start in the pulp magazines, quickly moving to the prestigious Adventure magazine, which became his primary fiction outlet for nineteen years. In 1927, he wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following up on its great success, turned more and m
