E-mail: boblamb@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.783.9697
Room: Coliseum 3007

Spring 2008 Syllabus:
Jour 540 - Magazine Article Writing

Robert Lamb
Adjunct Faculty

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford

Robert Lamb is a native of Aiken, S.C., who grew up in Augusta, Ga., 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, and published free-lance articles in various newspapers and magazines. He still does free-lance reporting for The New York Times. He is a former director of periodicals for USC Publications and was editor of the University’s prize-winning alumni magazine, Carolinian.

In 1991, he published his first novel, Striking Out, a coming-of-age story set in Augusta. Striking Out was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a coveted prize for first novels.

In that same year, he began teaching writing at the University of South Carolina and has taught writing and literature courses in USC’s Evening Program, the South Carolina Honors College, and the College of Mass Communications and Information.

In 1998, with co-editor Chris Horn of USC Publications, he published a volume of fiction by his students titled The Class Menagerie -- A Collection of Short Stories Out of USC. Then, in July 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.

Lamb's latest novel, Atlanta Blues, was published in September 2004 by Harbor House, named in 2004 in Publishers Weekly as one of the top 15 small presses in the country. Atlanta Blues was named by The Sumter Item as one of the three best novels of 2004 by a Southern writer.

Lamb, who is working on another novel, lives in Columbia with his wife Margaret, who is media relations director at USC, and their sons Tyler, a USC student, and Carson, a student at Midlands Tech.