Wally Lamb

Novelist and Author

Wally Lamb is the best-selling author of \_She’s Come Undone, I know This Much is True, The Hour I First Believed,\_ and \_Wishin’ and Hopin’.\_ His first two books were selected for Oprah’s Book Club, were \_New York Times\_ best-sellers, \_New York Times\_ Notable Books of the Year and, between them, have been translated into 18 languages. His latest novel is \_We Are Water\_. Lamb has also edited two volumes of essays: \_Couldn’t Keep it to Myself\_ and \_I’ll Fly Away,\_ written by students in his writing workshops at a women’s prison in Connecticut. He has taught creative writing in the English department at the University of Connecticut, was founder and director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy, has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Connecticut Commission for the Arts, and was honored with the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award.