Wally Lamb is an American author, best known for his novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True. He has also written several non-fiction works, including Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters and The Hour I First Believed. Lamb has been a professor of writing at the University of Connecticut since 1998 and has received numerous awards for his writing, including the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is a passionate advocate for prison reform and has worked with incarcerated women and men to help them tell their stories. Lamb's work is often praised for its emotional depth and insight into the human condition.