Poet, songwriter, essayist, and memoirist Mary Karr is the author of three memoirs, The Liars’ Club, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award; Cherry; and Lit, as well as five volumes of poetry, Abacus; The Devil’s Tour; Viper Rum; Sinners Welcome; and most recently Tropic of Squalor (Harper, May 2018). She has received numerous awards and honors, including a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and several Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays. She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
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Memoir Reading: Mary Karr
