Mary Karr
Biography
Mary Karr
Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: THE LIARS’ CLUB, which kick-started a memoir revolution and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; CHERRY, which was excerpted in The New Yorker and hit “notable book” lists nationwide; and LIT, which was a “Top Ten” New York Times Book Review pick (and hit virtually every other Best of the Year list) and also a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Karr has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays. Other grants include the Whiting Award and Radcliffe’s Bunting Fellowship. She is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
Mary Karr
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