Complete video at: fora.tv While signing copies of The Hour I First Believed, his novel about the Columbine High School massacre, author Wally Lamb was approached by the father of gunman Eric Harris. Lamb remembers the details of the emotionally charged moment. ----- Wally Lamb talks about his novel The Hour I First Believed. When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Three Rivers, Connecticut, to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed - Book Passage Wally Lamb's first two novels, She's Come Undone (Simon & Schuster/Pocket, 1992) and I Know This Much Is True (HarperCollins/ReganBooks, 1998), were #1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and featured titles of Oprahs Book Club. I Know This Much Is True was a Book of the Month Club main selection and the June 1999 featured selection of the Bertelsman Book Club, the national book club of Germany. Lamb is also the editor of the nonfiction anthologies Couldnt Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters.
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