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By Daniel Ford
I was in high school when my mother lent me her copy of Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much Is True.
At that time, I was still finding my way as a reader. I was reading classics on my own and in class, but was just starting to branch out into modern fiction.
Lamb’s critically acclaimed novel was like a thunderbolt to my young mind. I may not have fully appreciated his characterization or writing style at that age, but I was enough of a reader to know great writing when I saw it and I Know This Much Is True is superb prose. In college, a good friend of mine—who has read everything Lamb has ever published—recommended I go back and read She’s Come Undone. The novel remains one of the best I’ve ever read. It’s a masterpiece that should be required reading.
Lamb published his latest novel, We Are Water, in October 2013 and it features deep, well-thought out characters and a memorable multi-narrator structure (the paperback edition is available Aug. 12). He talked to me recently about how he caught the writing bug, how he lets his protagonists take the wheel,
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Wally Lamb Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Wally Lamb Biography
Wally Lamb is the author of the New York Times and national bestseller The Hour I First Believed, as well as the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both #1 New York Times bestsellers and Oprah's Book Club selections. His first novel She's Come Undone received rave reviews when it was published in 1992. The book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards' Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction and was named as one of the most notable books of the year by numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review and People magazine. We Are Water will be published in October 2013.
A graduate of the Vermont College MFA writing program, Lamb is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut's English Department. He is the recipient of an NEA grant for fiction and a Missouri Review William Peden fiction prize winner. A nationally honored teacher of writing, he lives in Mansfield, Connecticut with his wife Christina and their th
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Wally Lamb
American novelist (born 1950)
Wally Lamb (born October 17, 1950)[1] is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club.[2][3][4] He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998[5] and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.[6]
Early life
Lamb was born to a working class Catholic family of German, English and Italian descent in Norwich, Connecticut.[7] His father Walter was superintendent of the Gas Department of Norwich, Department of Public Utilities while his mother Anna was a homemaker.[8][9][10] Three Rivers, the fictional town where several of his novels are set, is based on Norwich and the nearby towns of New London, Willimantic,[11] in Connecticut as well as Westerly, Rhode Island.[2] As a child, Lamb loved to draw and create his o
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