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Robert Lamb “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford Robert Lamb is a native of Aiken, S.C., and is a graduate of the University of Georgia. In a journalism career spanning 20 years, he worked as a writer/editor for several newspapers, last with The Atlanta Constitution, owned and operated a weekly in south Georgia, and published free-lance articles in various newspapers and magazines. He still does free-lance reporting for The New York Times and Dow Jones, and reviews books for the New York Journal of Books. He is a former director of periodicals for USC Publications and was editor of the University’s prize-winning alumni magazine,Carolinian. He is the author of three novels: Striking Out, a coming-of-age story that was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, 1991; Atlanta Blues, an Edgar Award contender about the search by a reporter and two cops for a missing co-ed, 2004; and A Majority of One, a novel about book censorship and the separation of Church and State, 2011. In 2011, Lamb published a collection of stories and poems titled Six of One, Half Dozen of Another. In 1998, with co-editor Chris Horn, director of USC Publications, Lamb published a volume of fiction by his students titled The Class Menagerie -- A Collection of Short Stories Out of USC. Then, in 2006, with co-editor Dr. Charles (Chuck) Curran, he published a second collection: The Class Menagerie II -- More Short Stories Out of USC. Curran is a USC library and information studies professor emeritus. In 1991, Lamb began teaching writing at the University of South Carolina and since then has taught writing and literature courses in USC’s Evening Program, the South Carolina Honors College, and the College of Mass Communications and Information. Lamb was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award by USC's Mortar Board honor society in 2008. He also served on the faculty of the 2008 South Carolina Writers Workshop. He was named a winner in the 2009 South Carolina Fiction Project. His winning story, "R.I.P.," may be seen at http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/aug/16/rip/. And in August of 2009, he was named to the South Carolina Literary Map by the S.C. Center for the Book. Below are links to more of Lamb's recent articles: |
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