Anita Hackley-Lambert

Anita Hackley Lambert is a renowned author, historian, biographer, genealogist, and ordained Christian minister whose books explore faith, spiritual experience, healing, African American history, and lives too important to be forgotten.

Ms. Lambert secured her place in history with her inaugural book—a feat lauded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis, esteemed historian Charles Patterson, and Harpers Ferry Historical National Park. She stands unrivaled as the familial authority, penning insightful biographies of F.H.M. Murray and Barry A. Murray, both visionary businessmen and lifelong champions of civil rights. As the CEO and president of her former high-tech company, Ms. Lambert founded HLE Publishing, a subsidiary of Hackley Lambert Enterprises—from which she launched her writing career.

Her Christian memoir, The War For Every Soul: True Encounters With the Spirit Realm, recounts two extraordinary near-death experiences separated by more than four decades. In 1978, Lambert says she crossed the threshold of death and encountered the terrifying reality of hell before crying out to Jesus Christ. In 2019, during a second near-death experience, she says she encountered Jesus and received urgent warnings that deepened her conviction about salvation, spiritual warfare, and the eternal value of every soul.

Lambert writes not from theological theory alone, but from experiences that transformed her life and strengthened her Christian calling. Her work also extends deeply into historical recovery. Through years of genealogical and biographical research, she has worked to restore overlooked African American lives and contributions to the historical record.

Whether writing about eternity, healing, history, or legacy, Lambert's purpose remains consistent: to preserve truth, strengthen faith, recover lives worth remembering, and leave a record that speaks beyond her own generation.

She is the mother of four grown children: three sons and one daughter. Nestled in the picturesque Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, she lives with her husband. Her journey continues as she will add two captivating biographies and an impressive quartet of nonfiction gems to her literary legacy.