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Mary Karr

Mary Karr
Mary 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. Her many awards include an NEA, a Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and a Guggenheim. She is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Poetry magazine. Karr is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University and she lives in New York City. She received a Whiting Award in Poetry in 1989.


Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

“A single image can split open the hard seed of the past.”
October 21, 2022  By Mary Karr
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Mary Karr Thought Her Whiting Award Call Was a Prank and Hung Up

On the Life-Changing Award She Won 30 Years Ago
May 3, 2019  By Mary Karr
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