Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb (born October 17, 1950 in Norwich , Connecticut ) is an American writer , educator and lecturer .

Life

Wally Lamb grew up in Connecticut, initially studying education at the University of Connecticut and then teaching English at a high school in Norwich. He began writing in 1981 and also graduated from Vermont College with a degree in writing . He later headed the Creative Writing Department in the English Department at the University of Connecticut. From 1999, he led writing classes at York Women's Prison, Connecticut. From these experiences the book Written by the soul: Wally Lamb and the women of the maximum security prison was born .

Lamb lives in Connecticut, USA with his wife and three sons.

Works

• She's Come Undone , 1992
  • The music of the whales , 2001
• I Know This Much is True , 1998
  • The night begins early in the morning , 1999
• Couldn't Keep It To Myself , 2003
  • as editor : Written by the soul: Wally Lamb and the women of the maximum security prison in York
• Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison , 2007
  • I wanna fly away
• The Hour I First Believed , HarperCollins, New York 2008
  • The hour in which I began to believe , Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25882-1
• Wishin 'and Hopin': A Christmas Story , 2009
• We are water , Harper Verlag, New York 2013
• I'll Take You There , 2016, ISBN 978-1-78475-726-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Wally Lamb in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wally Lamb on harpercollins.com (accessed October 19, 2008)
• Wally Lamb: Letting Go of Secrets . Interview with Dory Adams (accessed October 19, 2008)