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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Italian
Novels
Several
Surface
Novel
Surfaces
Proud
Identify
American
Strongly
Heritage

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