Robert Lamb was born in Aiken, S.C., grew up in Augusta, Ga., and is a graduate of the University of Georgia. Set in 1981, Atlanta Blues is about the search for a missing girl by a reporter and two cops. The trail leads through the underbelly of urban Atlanta to murder and heartbreak. Lamb is a member of the Southern Book Critics Circle, and reviews novels for SouthernScribe.com and for The State newspaper. * * * A Word of Thanks: Writing is a solitary occupation, but the fortunate writer does not go it alone. In writing both Atlanta Blues and Striking Out, as well as in editing and publishing The Class Menagerie, both I and II, and in writing since then, I've been especially fortunate to have the support and encouragement of friends like Karen Petit, Marshall Swanson, Rick Layman, Chris Horn, Bond Nickles, David Baker, Bobby and Mary Woodward and their daughter Beth Woodward, Dave Osier, Beau Cutts, Bill Starr, Rick Layman, Naomi Williams, Buster Sheahan, Dorothy Jones, Jim Koffman, Bert Goolsby, my late mother and father, my late cousin Barbara Jean Rowley, the late Lenny and Jeannie Perry, and scores of my students at the University of South Carolina who urged me to "keep going" on the story, whatever it was at the time. Not least, I thank my wife Margaret and our two sons, Tyler and Carson, all of whom bear heroically the stigma of having, respectively, a husband and father who writes. -- Robert Lamb |
The novels. . . Striking Out, Lamb's first novel, is a coming-of-age story set in Georgia in the 1950s. It was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Set in 1981, Atlanta Blues is about the search for a missing college girl by a newspaper reporter and two cops. The trail leads through the underbelly of urban Atlanta to murder and heartbreak. Nominated for the Southern Book Circle Critics Award and named by one reviewer as "one of the three best novels of the year by a Southern writer." ~~~~~~~~~ Like Short Fiction? To read one of my latest stories, click here: New Story.
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