Wally Lamb

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wally Lamb
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Oct 17, 1950(1950-10-17)
Age	74
Birthplace	Norwich
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Libra

Wally Lamb Biography

Wally Lamb is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 17, 1950 in Norwich, Connecticut, United States. A American writer, he is famous for her novels She’s come Undone as well as I Believe This is True. He was an instructor in creative writing on the University of Connecticut.

Two of his works were chosen to be read by Two of his novels were selected by Oprah Winfrey for Oprah’s Book Club. to be part of Oprah’s Book Club.

After graduating from high school, Lamb studied at the University of Connecticut during the turbulent early 1970s era of anti-war and civil rights protests and student strikes. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Education from the University of Connecticut and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College.

Lamb began writing in 1981, the year he became a father. Lamb’s first published stories were short fictions that appeared in Northeast, a Sunday magazine of the Hartford Courant. “Astronauts,” published in The Missouri Review in 1989, won the Missouri Review William Peden Prize and became widely anthologized. His first novel, She’s Come Undone, was followed six years later by I Know This Much Is True, a story about identical twin brothers, one of whom develops paranoid schizophrenia. Both novels became number one bestsellers after Oprah Winfrey selected them for her popular Book Club. Lamb’s third novel, The Hour I First Believed, published in 2008, interfaces fiction with such non-fictional events as the Columbine High School shooting, the Iraq War, and, in a story within the story, events of nineteenth-century America. Published the following year, Wishin’ and Hopin’ was a departure for Lamb: a short, comically nostalgic novel about a parochial school fifth grader, set in 1964. In We Are Water, Lamb returns to his familiar setting of Three Rivers. The novel focuses on art, 1950s-era racial strife, and the impact of a devastating flood on a Connecticut family. His seventh novel, I’ll Take You There, revives characters from Wishin’ and Hopin’ and considers themes of millennial-era popular culture contrasted with figures from the silent film era and the 1950s Miss Rheingold contest.

He was born in Connecticut and then returned to the state he grew up in together with three of his sons and his spouse.

Wally Lamb Net Worth

Wally Lamb is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wally Lamb 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated with an B.A. as well as an M.A. in Education from The University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. Writing from Vermont College.

His teaching was in English for 25 decades at Norwich Free Academy.

Wally Lamb (born October 17, 1950) 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. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.

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Who is Wally Lamb Dating?

According to our records, Wally Lamb married to Christine Lamb. As of December 1, 2023, Wally Lamb’s is not dating anyone.

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Lamb was born to a working class family in Norwich, Connecticut. Three Rivers, the fictional town where several of his novels are set, is based on Norwich and the nearby towns of New London, Willimantic, in Connecticut as well as Westerly, Rhode Island. As a child, Lamb loved to draw and create his own comic books—activities which, he says, gave him “a leg up” on the imagery and colloquial dialogue that characterize his stories. He credits his ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.

Facts & Trivia

Wally Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Wally Lamb celebrates birthday on October 17 of every year.

What is Wally Lamb doing now?

He has run a writing workshop for inmates at the York prison , where he met Bozelko, and edited two other books containing their essays. Another Lamb book, “I Know This Much is True,” is being made into an HBO miniseries in upstate New York, where a fire destroyed the set earlier this month.

Does Wally Lamb have a new book?

In his new novel, The Hour I First Believed , Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of…

Is Wally Lamb's book a true story?

Although Lamb writes about the novel’s subject matter incredibly convincingly, I Know This Much Is True isn’t based on his own experiences , although a few elements from his life made their way into his storytelling. For instance, like the twin brothers, Lamb also comes from a Catholic Italian family.

Is the hour I first believed a true story?

Wally Lamb’s third novel, The Hour I First Believed, explores chaos theory by interfacing several generations of a fictional Connecticut family with such nonfictional American events as the Civil War, the Columbine High School shootings of 1999, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina.

Is Wally Lamb married?

Christine Lamb