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Speed Lamkin


Born
in Monroe, Louisiana, The United States
November 02, 1927

Died
May 03, 2011

Genre
Fiction, Theater


Hillyer Speed Lamkin was an American novelist and playwright. He is best known for his first novel Tiger in the Garden (1950) and was called "the poor man's Truman Capote" by the composer Ned Rorem. He was a recipient of a 1950 O. Henry Award for his short story 'Comes a Day', later adapted into a Broadway play.

Lamkin graduated from Harvard University in 1948, which he had entered at the age of 16.

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Average rating: 3.6 · 10 ratings · 5 reviews · 7 distinct works
The Easter Egg Hunt
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1954 — 16 editions
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Tiger in the Garden
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Comes a Day
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Fast and Loose
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The Easter egg hunt: A novel
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