![]() She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. "Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." His books I Know This Much Is True (1998) and Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story (2009) have both been adapted into motion pictures. He currently lives with his family in northeastern Connecticut and New York City. Prior to becoming a fiction writer, Lamb worked as a high school English teacher at Norwich Free Academy (where he was once a student) and an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut.Ī renowned keynote speaker, Lamb has spoken at colleges, universities, libraries, arts and lecture venues, and literary festivals all over the U.S. ![]() ![]() He also has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing Degree from Vermont College. ![]() Lamb also edited the anthologies Couldn’t Keep It to Myself (2003) and I’ll Fly Away (2007), essays by students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution-the Connecticut women’s prison where he volunteered for two decades.īorn in Connecticut, Lamb holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in teaching from the University of Connecticut. Wally Lamb is an American New York Times best-selling author of literary fiction books. ![]()
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