When Malcolm Winslow Lamb was born on 19 January 1903, in Alameda, California, United States, his father, George Winslow Lamb, was 38 and his mother, Marie Louise Fox, was 29. He married Helen Gould Miller on 1 October 1924, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States. He lived in Alameda, Alameda, California, United States in 1910 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 May 1983, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 80.