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  • Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas.
  • Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. [1] 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.
  • Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas.
  • Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas. She first gained attention for her controversial Pushcart Award-winning essay, "Against Decoration," (reprinted in Viper Rum), in which she took aim at excessive verbal ornament in poetry.
  • Poet and memoirist Mary Karr was born in 1955 and raised in Texas.
  • Poet and memoirist Mary Karr was born in 1955 and raised in Texas. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Abacus (1987; reprinted 2007), The Devil’s Tour (1993), Viper Rum (2001), Sinners Welcome (2006), and Tropic of Squalor (2018), a trilogy of memoirs including The Liar’s Club (1995), Cherry (2001), and Lit (2009), and The Art of Memoir (2015).

  • Books by Mary Karr (Author of The Liars' Club) - Goodreads 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.
  • Mary Karr - College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University Mary Karr was born on January 16, 1955, and grew up in an East Texas oil town. She is an award-winning poet and bestselling memoirist who is perhaps best known for her memoirs, Lit (Harper, 2009), about her struggles with alcoholism; Cherry (Penguin Books, 2000); and The Liar’s Club (Penguin Books, 2005), about Karr’s upbringing in Texas. The Liar’s Club was a winner of the PEN/Martha.
  • Mary Karr Biography | Author of The Liars' Club - Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry. A born raconteur she brings to her lectures and talks the same wit, irreverence, joy, and sorrow found in her poetry and prose.

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    Mary Karr (born January 16, ) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. [1] She is widely noted for her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. [2] [3].

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      Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas. She first gained attention for her controversial Pushcart Award-winning essay, "Against Decoration," (reprinted in Viper Rum), in which she took aim at excessive verbal ornament in poetry.
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    Poet and memoirist Mary Karr was born in and raised in Texas. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Abacus (; reprinted ), The Devil’s Tour (), Viper Rum (), Sinners Welcome (), and Tropic of Squalor (), a trilogy of memoirs including The Liar’s Club (), Cherry (

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    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.

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  • She is an award-winning poet and bestselling memoirist who is perhaps best known for her memoirs, Lit (Harper, ), about her struggles with alcoholism; Cherry (Penguin Books, ); and The Liar’s Club (Penguin Books, ), about Karr’s upbringing in Texas.


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    Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry.

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    Mary Karr was born in January in Texas, the daughter of J. P. Karr, an oil refinery worker, and Charlie Marie Karr, an artist and business owner. She had a difficult childhood which she describes in The Liars' Club and she left home when she was seventeen. Karr enrolled at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, but left after two years.