Wally Lamb



Wally Lamb

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born October 17, 1950
gender male
place of birth United States
genre Literature & Fiction

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Wally Lamb (born 17 October 1950) is the author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True. Both were featured as selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb is the recipient of the 1998 Governor’s Arts Award, State of Connecticut, a past recipient of the NEA grant for fiction and is a Missouri Review William Peden fiction prize winner.

He was the director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut from 1989-1998, and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut’s English Department. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Education from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. Lamb lives in Mansfield, Connecticut with his wife and th...more

books by Wally Lamb

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avg rating: 3.90 | 26645 ratings | 6 distinct works
She's Come Undone She's Come Undone (Mass Market Paperback)
by Wally Lamb
avg rating 3.76 — 13876 ratings — published 1998
23 editions
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I Know This Much Is True I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)
by Wally Lamb
avg rating 4.08 — 786 ratings — published 2008
25 editions
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself:  W... Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters)
by Wally Lamb
avg rating 4.04 — 587 ratings — published 2004
4 editions
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I'll Fly Away: Further Testimo... I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison (Hardcover)
by Wally Lamb
avg rating 3.86 — 51 ratings — published 2007
3 editions
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I Know This Much Is True I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 2008
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The Hour I First Believed: A N... The Hour I First Believed: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Wally Lamb
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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quotes by Wally Lamb

"Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four a.m."
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"Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out."
Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone)
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"It was a matter of perspective, I began to see.
The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist.

-- Dolores Price in Wally Lamb's 'She's Come Undone'"
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