Keynote Speakers and Special Events – Open to the Public

Wally Lamb - photo credit: Elena Seibert

Wally Lamb, #1 bestselling author and two-time pick of Oprah’s Book Club will be the 2009 keynote speaker for the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. His first two novels—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—established Wally Lamb as one of our major novelists, and his brand new novel, The Hour I First Believed, reasserts his place in American letters. Since its publication in early November of 2008, The Hour I First Believed has been listed near the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Lamb has also edited two volumes of essays—Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away—written by students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for the past nine years. Lamb and his wife Christine live in Connecticut and are the parents of three sons.

Sunday, July 12, 2009 – 8 pm

Faculty Readings
Monday, July 13, 2009 – 5:30-6:30 pm
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – 5:30-6:30 pm
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 – 5:30-6:30 pm
Thursday, July 16, 2009 – 5:30-6:30 pm
Saturday, July 18, 2009 – 7 pm