Wally Lamb - With destruction comes renovation.

With destruction comes renovation.

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Lamb, Wally. I Know This Much Is True. HarperCollins, 1998.

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About the Author

Wally Lamb

Born: October 17, 1950
Nationality: American
Profession: Novelist

Biography

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.

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