Wally Lamb is an American

United States

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 author

Author

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 known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone

She's Come Undone

She's Come Undone is a 1992 novel by Wally Lamb which was widely read after being chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in December 1996. Lamb's breakthrough novel was named a finalist for the 1992 Los Angeles Book Awards' Art Seidenbaum Prize for first fiction. Lamb's other novels include I...

and I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True is a novel by Wally Lamb, published in 1998. It was featured in Oprah's Book Club in June 1998.-Plot summary:...

, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club

Oprah's Book Club

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.
Lamb was born in Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich, Connecticut

Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 20th century. During the Civil War, Norwich once again rallied and saw the growth of its textile, armaments, and specialty item manufacturing...

. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy

Norwich Free Academy

The Norwich Free Academy founded in 1854 and in operation since 1856, is a high school located in the city of Norwich, Connecticut. The Academy serves as the primary high school for Norwich and the surrounding towns of Canterbury, Bozrah, Voluntown, Sprague, Lisbon, Franklin, Preston andseveral...

 in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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. 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

Mansfield, Connecticut

Mansfield is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,720 at the 2000 census.Mansfield was incorporated in October 1702 from the Town of Windham, in Hartford County. When Windham County was formed on 12 May 1726, Mansfield then became part of that county...

, with his wife and three sons.

External links

• A Columbine survivor reviews The Hour I First Believed
• Wally Lamb talks about meeting one of the Columbine Gunman's Father
• Reading guide and chapter excerpts (Official publisher web page)
• Interview with Wally Lamb by Dory Adams
• Interview by Zachary Chouteau. Choteau, then of the American Booksellers Association
  American Booksellers Association
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  , conducted an in-depth interview with Lamb shortly after his appearance on Oprah boosted him into the public spotlight.