Wally Lamb talks about his novel The Hour I First Believed.
When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Three Rivers, Connecticut, to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke.
But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed- Book Passage
Bio
Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb's first two novels, She's Come Undone (Simon & Schuster/Pocket, 1992) and I Know This Much Is True (HarperCollins/ReganBooks, 1998), were #1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and featured titles of Oprah’s Book Club.
I Know This Much Is True was a Book of the Month Club main selection and the June 1999 featured selection of the Bertelsman Book Club, the national book club of Germany.
Lamb is also the editor of the nonfiction anthologies Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters.
God's Love We Deliver is hosting the 6th Annual Authors in Kind Literary Luncheon at the Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom in New York on Thursday, April 23, 2009. Come meet guest authors Wally Lamb, William D. Cohan, and Giulia Melucci and watch acclaimed legal expert Linda Fairstein as Master of Ceremonies. Each guest will receive a complimentary signed copy of one of the author's books, and all titles will be available for purchase and signing at 11:30am prior to the 12:00 luncheon. For more information contact Susan Oher at (212) 294-8162 or aik@glwd.org.