Wally Lamb

best-selling author of six novels and two volumes of essays from his writing students; editor of the nonfiction anthologies; sought-after keynote speaker; his books have been selected for book clubs including Oprah’s Book Club, Book of the Month, and the Bertelsman Book Club; his honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the New England Book Award, the Friends of the Library USA Readers’ Choice Award, and the Kenneth Johnson Memorial Book Award; I Know This Much Is True premiered on HBO as a limited series in May 2020