David Sherman Lamb (March 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016)[1] was a freelance writer who traveled the world for twenty-five years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent. He left the paper in 2004 after 34 years and then freelanced.[2]
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David Lamb was born in Boston, Massachusetts. For most of his high school education, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he ran a gambling ring, and was nicknamed “The Joker.” At Exeter, Lamb was friends with Benno Schmidt, who later became president of Yale University; Lamb was expelled after the school's administration searched his dorm room over winter break, and even hired a locksmith to open up his locked box of IOUs.[3]
^Lamb, David (26 September 2010). "Vietnam's Phu Quoc island slowly opening up to the world". Los Angeles Times.
^Wilkinson, Tracy, and Jill Leovy, "David Lamb, longtime L.A. Times correspondent who covered Vietnam War, dies at 76", Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
^Adams, James (3 May 1987). "The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage by David Lamb (Random House: $19.95; 333 pp.)". Los Angeles Times.
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