Wally Lamb is the author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True. Both were featured as selections of Oprah's Book Club.

Wally Lamb is a nationally honored teacher, critically acclaimed writer and bestselling author. His work includes the #1 New York Times bestseller, She's Come Undone (Pocket Books; 1992) which also hit USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly and other national bestseller lists; published fiction and non-fiction in The Missouri Review, Allure, USA Weekend, Northeast, The New York Times Magazine, and editor of the poetry collection, Always Begin Where You Are (McGraw Hill; 1979). His second book, I Know This Much is True (ReganBooks), was released in June 1998. Lamb also edited the book Couldn't Keep it to Myself which was a collection of women serving time in prison. Lamb has been volunteering at the prison for several years.

She's Come Undone was chosen as a finalist for the 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Awards’ Art Seidenbaum Prize for first fiction. It was named a notable book of the year by numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review and People. The book was also chosen by the Oprah Winfrey Show as a "Book Club" selection in early 1997, and is one of the bestselling titles chosen for that honor.

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