Wally Lamb

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born

October 17, 1950 in Norwich, Connecticut, The United States

gender

male

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Literature & Fiction

influences

Mark Twain, Richard Russo, Anne Tyler, Andre Dubus, Gabriel García Márquez

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Wally Lamb is the author of She's Come Undone, The Hour I First Believed, and I Know This Much Is True. Two were featured as selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb is the recipient of the Connecticut Center for the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Connecticut Bar Association's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Connecticut Governor's Art Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1999 New England Book Award for Fiction, and the Missouri Review William Peden Fiction Prize.

He was the director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut from 1989-1998, and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut’s English Department. He holds a B.A. in Education...more

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Books by Wally Lamb

Average rating: 3.83 · 183,810 ratings · 15,044 reviews · 7 distinct works

	She's Come Undone 3.70 avg rating — 92,887 ratings — published 1992 — 41 editions	My rating:
	I Know This Much is True 4.08 avg rating — 64,074 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Hour I First Believed 3.66 avg rating — 20,245 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution 3.99 avg rating — 2,767 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story 3.42 avg rating — 3,176 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison by Wally Lamb, I'll Fly Away Contributors 3.84 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The bank balance diet 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ploughshares Winter 2011-2012 Guest-Edited by Alice Hoffman by Alice Hoffman (Editor), Jennifer Haigh (Goodreads Author), James Franco 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.”
― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

tags: love

242 people liked it

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

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“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much is True

tags: inspirational

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Which book would you like to see as the selection for our Winter 2010-2011 Group Reads category Winter/Holiday?

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

32 votes, 22.7%

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

27 votes, 19.1%

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

16 votes, 11.3%

Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story by Wally Lamb

16 votes, 11.3%

The History of the Snowman: From the Ice Age to the Flea Market by Bob Eckstein

13 votes, 9.2%

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

12 votes, 8.5%

The Gift by Nora Roberts

8 votes, 5.7%

The Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiere

8 votes, 5.7%

Letters from Father Christmas, Revised Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien * edition must be 100 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber

4 votes, 2.8%

141 total votes

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