Wally Lamb’s first two novels, She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year and featured titles of Oprah’s Book Club. Wally Lamb’s third novel, The Hour I First Believed, explored chaos theory by interfacing several generations of a fictional Connecticut family with such nonfictional American events as the Civil War, the Columbine High School shootings of 1999, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. Lamb is also the editor of the nonfiction anthologies Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters and I’ll Fly Away, collections of autobiographical essays which evolved from a writing workshop he facilitates at Connecticut’s York Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for women where he has served as a volunteer since 1999. His brand new novella, Wishin’ and Hopin’, is a story for the holiday season that has been called poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries.

Titles

• Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story
• The Hour I First Believed
• I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
• Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
• I Know this Much is True
• She’s Come Undone