Lamb to Deliver YSU Skeggs Lecture Oct. 22
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Wally Lamb, author of four novels that made the best-seller list of The New York Times, will deliver the Skeggs Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Stambaugh Auditorium.
The Skegg Lecture Committee at Youngstown State University did not provide the subject of his talk. The committee did say his presentation is free and open to the public but those who attend must present a ticket.
Lamb is the editor of anthologies of nonfiction, Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters and I’ll Fly Away, collections of autobiographical essays that arose from a writing workshop that Lamb directs at the York Correctional Institute in Connecticut, a maximum-security prison for women. He has served as a Connecticut Department of Corrections volunteer at York since 1999 and his work there was the focus of a segment on CBS’ “60 Minutes” in 2004.
Lamb is a native of Connecticut who holds a bacalaureate and master’s degree in education from the University of Connecticut and a master of fine arts in writing from Vermont College.
Seating is first-come, first-served. Tickets are available at the Stambaugh Auditorium box office from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call the YSU Office of Alumni and Events at 330 941 3497.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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