Lena Tabori

Lena Tabori is an award-winning publisher, author, and pioneer in visual book publishing. Her career began in 1967 at Harry N. Abrams, where she became their first female vice president. In 1980, she co-founded the prominent illustrated publishing house Stewart, Tabori & Chang. She later established the packaging firm Welcome Enterprises and launched its official publishing imprint, Welcome Books (which she sold to Rizzoli in 2014). As an editor and author, Tabori created the highly successful, multi-million-selling "Little Big Book" anthology series, which features popular titles on Christmas, Love and more. Beyond print, she won an Emmy Award in 1983 for producing the animated film Ziggy's Gift. Driven by environmental advocacy, Tabori later co-founded the website Climate Change Resources in 2018 which she still runs. A Sweden native, she currently splits her time between the West Coast and East Hampton, New York.