# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wally-lamb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:38.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wally-lamb"
name: "Wally Lamb"
slug: "wally-lamb"
description: "Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, and The River Is Waiting, all of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club or Oprah's Book Club 2.0. 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."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WallyLamb06.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.550089333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/wallylambauthor/"
    handle:    "wallylambauthor"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/authorwallylamb"
    handle:    "authorwallylamb"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wallylamb.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wally_Lamb"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8B%E1%88%8A_%E1%88%8B%E1%88%9D%E1%89%A5"
    title: "ዋሊ ላምብ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8"
    title: "والي لامب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Lamb"
    title: "Wally Lamb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Lamb"
    title: "Wally Lamb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Lamb"
    title: "Wally Lamb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Lamb"
    title: "Wally Lamb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2543147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump