The River Is Waiting (Oprah's Book Club) - Wally Lamb

Lamb, Wally: - Wally Lamb is the author of seven New York Times bestselling novels: The River Is Waiting, I'll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin' and Hopin', The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She's Come Undone. Lamb also edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself and I'll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years. Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.