The Hour I First Believed

Wally Lamb 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. Lamb was born in Norwich, Connecticut., and grew up in a working-class family in that town. Three Rivers, the fictional town where several of his novels are set, is based on Norwich and the nearby towns of New London, Willimantic, and 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. After his graduation 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.
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