Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb is the author of She's Come Undone, The Hour I First Believed, and I Know This Much Is True. Two were featured as selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb is the recipient of the Connecticut Center for the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Connecticut Bar Association's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Connecticut Governor's Art Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1999 New England Book Award for Fiction, and the Missouri Review William Peden Fiction Prize.He was the director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut from 1989-1998, and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut’s English Department. He holds a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. Lamb has served as a volunteer facilitator for a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for women, in Niantic, Connecticut since 1999. He has edited two collections of autobiographical essays entitled Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters (2003) and I'll Fly Away (2007). Lamb currently lives in Mansfield, Connecticut with his wife, Christine Lamb, and their three sons, Jared, Justin and Teddy.

Quotes

Sunarohas quoted10 days ago
You could show a drive-in movie on that forehead of hers, I thought.
Sunarohas quoted4 days ago
"I mean, I've been sleeping shitty. I get up in the middle of the night missing you. You know, needing you—more than just once a month. More than just for sex… And then I start thinking to myself, Well, what if she's just using you? Or what if one of these times it does take and we do make this kid? Where does that leave me, Dolores? I mean, shit, it boils down to an irresponsible act on my part when you get down to it."

"But you told me… You came over to this house and said—"

"Yeah, but the thing is, I love little babies. If we make one, I know I'm going to want to hold it. Play with its little fingers. Be its dad."
Sunarohas quoted4 days ago
I got off the bed and grabbed my bathrobe. "Okay, fine," I said. "We won't do it anymore."

"What—? I can't tell you how I feel without you getting pissed off?"

"Of course you can tell me how you feel. I just wish you'd let me know before…"

"Why can't we just get married and make a baby like everyone else does? What are you so afraid of?"

"I'm not afraid."

"Then what are you?"

"Look!" I said. "My father used to beat up my mother! I had a husband who put me through the meat grinder and now one of my best friends has AIDS! I just don't believe in happily-ever-after. It's a crock of shit!"

"I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you… happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit."

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