11 Facts About Kenneth Lamott

The family returned to the United States in 1938 after Kenneth Lamott had spent two years at the American School in Japan.

Kenneth Lamott graduated from Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and began studies in engineering at Yale in 1940.

Kenneth Lamott left during World War II and joined the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant.

Kenneth Lamott married Dorothy Wyles in 1946, with whom he had three children.

Kenneth Lamott worked for the State Department until 1951, then moved to California, where he taught part-time at San Quentin Prison while writing his first book.

Kenneth Lamott had other projects, Killing the Whale, which was not published and The Great Big New Rich, which was published in 1970.

Kenneth Lamott wrote many articles for Harper's, Horizon magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Yale Review.

Kenneth Lamott wrote for Contact magazine, which he edited in the early 1960s.

Kenneth Lamott was a screenwriter of television scripts, including Science in Action.

Kenneth Lamott divorced in 1974 and died in Bolinas on August 18,1979.

Kenneth Lamott was the father of American novelist and non-fiction writer Anne Lamott.