Donald Stephen Lamm

Donald S. Lamm served most recently as a literary agent at Fletcher & Parry LLC. He joined W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. as a college sales representative in 1956, served as an editor, and retired in 2000 as chairman and president. From 1984 to 2000 he was chairman of the Board of Governors of Yale University Press. He has stewarded hundreds of books as a publisher and an agent. Lamm was first affiliated with Carlisle & Co., literary agents, from 2000 to 2003. Lamm is a member of the board of directors of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. He has also served as a trustee of the Roper Center, a Fellow of Branford College at Yale University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He chaired the board of the Yale University Press from 1985 to 2000. He is a former trustee of Columbia University Press and University of California Press. Lamm was the Ida H. Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa in 1987-88 and the Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997-99. He is a former vice president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1998 he spent a year as a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a former vice president and board member of the School for Advanced Study in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Lamm received the B.A. degree (1953) from Yale University. In 1953-55 he served in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the U.S. Army, and then studied for a year at Oxford University. His principal current interest in working with authors of book-length manuscripts principally in the fields of history, biography, literature, and economics. He is also currently engaged in issues related to copyright.