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Bookmark or Share- Mary Karr, Remembering The Years She Spent 'Lit' - NPRWhen it comes to writing about the pain of growing up, author Mary Karr isn't one to hold back. Her new memoir, Lit, describes Karr's early years as a writer, wife and mother, years that...
- Mary Karr - WikipediaMary 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.
- Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr - The New York Times‘Come on, now. I won’t hurt you.’” 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...
- The Liars' Club - MARY KARRMary Karr's first memoir, The Liars' Club, kick-started a memoir revolution and won nonfiction prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, it rode high on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year, becoming an annual "best book" there and for The New Yorker , People ...
- MARY KARR - HomeMary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars' Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as the Art of Memoir, and five poetry collections, most recently Tropic of Squalor. Karr is also a songwriter, having collaborated with Rodney Crowell ...
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