David Lamb (2)
Author of Do Platanos Go Wit' Collard Greens?
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- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Hunter College (Economics)
New York University School of Law - Occupations
- writer
- Short biography
- David Lamb is a native New Yorker, born and raised, bitten with the writing bug since he was in elementary school and had handwriting nobody could decipher. Like Charles Dickens, David grew up a poor boy in the big city who found that the pen really is mightier than the sword. In middle school Lamb's hero was David Lampel whose velvet voice could be heard reporting the news over David's grandmother's radio. Whenever he heard him on the radio, David would substitute Lamb for Lampel and pretend he was delivering the news. Sure that he was destined to be a famous reporter David was happy to go to a high school with a journalism program. Like most kids, by the time he finished high school he had a whole new career in mind. After high school he went to Hunter College and majored in Economics because he wanted to be cool like that college kid who came to speak at his last year of high school. He was an Economics major, he was dressed sharp and above-all the girls thought he was the man! So like any unreasonable high school boy fueled by overactive hormones David figured if he majored in Economics they'd think he was cool. After finishing college David went on to law school at NYU, but all the time writing was still his heart. While working as a lawyer by day, at night he transformed into a writer and eventually wrote and produced the award-winning hit off-Broadway romantic comedy Platanos Y Collard Greens. Being a writer and having the chance make people laugh out loud while challenging them to think about the world around them, and inspire each of us to believe in the power of love and our own ability to overcome life's challenges is a great gift that David truly enjoys and thanks you for allowing him to share with you in It's Good To Be King (Until The Bell Chimes) [from Amazon.com, retrieved 4/20/2017]
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- Rating
- 3.2
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Scrooʝe belongs to a loving family, until his parents are killed in a car accident, leaving him and his beloved younger sister Fannie Lou in the care of Grandma Candy, who dies when they are twelve and ten, leaving Scrooʝe to the foster care system. A bright, studious boy, wanting to be a teacher, cursed with poverty and coke bottle glasses, he looks to be social outcast in college, until he meets Belle, who turns him into a sharp dresser, reveals his good looks to the envy of the other girls, and their future life together is looking very promising.
Until Scrooʝe and his friends Marley and Cratchit turn out to be talented rappers, and Scrooʝe discovers a positive genius for manipulating media attention, including exploiting Marley's death; and cheating other people, including Cratchit, through sharp dealing. Eventually, Belle has enough, and leaves him.
Then Marley and the three spirits get hold of him, and Scrooʝe has to think about what he has become and where he wants to go.
A very satisfying book, and I will definitely look for more from this author.… (more)