Kathleen Adair Lazare (d. 26 January 1995). Owner of Scarlet Letter Books and Prints in New Milford, Connecticut for 23 years until her death at age 60.
Per the remembrance by Michael L. Lazare published in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 6, #2), Winter 1995 (page 13), Lazare established the Scarlet Letter in 1971 in Maryland, specializing in children's books and later expanding into illustrator art. In 1975, the Lazares moved to Connecticut and Lazare became “a leading dealer in woodcuts by contemporary artists, such as Clare Leighton, Dorothy Lathrop, Thomas Nason, Lynd Ward, and Elizabeth Coatsworth. In later years, she also dealt in fore-edge paintings, herbals, cookery books, and manuscripts.” The firm had been a member of the A.B.A.A. “since the early 1970s.”
The Lazares also operated for a period a summer book shop as well as a bed and breakfast at the historic property Pansy Patch in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
