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Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
- January 16, 1955 (age 68), East Texas
- American
- 1987–present
- The Liars' Club
Mary Karr is an award-winning author of The Liars' Club, Cherry, Lit, and Tropic of Squalor, as well as a best-selling memoirist and a songwriter. She is also a professor of literature at Syracuse University and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry magazine.
Mary Karr is a poet and memoirist who explores her life and recovery through lyric and unsentimental language. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Abacus, The Liar's Club, and Tropic of Squalor, and a trilogy of memoirs, including The Liar's Club, Cherry, and Lit. She has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
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21 de out. de 2021 · Thus opens “The Liars’ Club,” Mary Karr’s haunting memoir of growing up in East Texas in the early 1960s, virtually motherless, and fiercely seeking to understand her parents, their lives ...
Mary Karr's first memoir, The Liars' Club, kick-started a memoir revolution and won nonfiction prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters.
Learn about Mary Karr, an award-winning author from East Texas who has written bestselling memoirs, poetry collections, and a memoir guide. She is also a professor of literature at Syracuse University and a popular speaker and musician.
