1. Mary Karr was born on January 16,1955 and is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas.
15 Facts About Mary Karr
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Mary Karr is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club.
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Mary Karr was born in Groves, Texas, on January 16,1955, and lived there until moving to Los Angeles in 1972.
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Mary Karr attended Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota, for two years and met poet Etheridge Knight, one of her mentors, there.
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Mary Karr's memoir The Liars' Club, published in 1995, was a New York Times bestseller for more than a year and named one of the year's best books.
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Mary Karr followed the book with a second memoir, Cherry, about her late adolescence and early womanhood.
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Mary Karr was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays.
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Mary Karr has published five volumes of poetry: Abacus, The Devil's Tour, Viper Rum, Sinners Welcome, and Tropic of Squalor.
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Mary Karr's poems have appeared in major literary magazines such as Poetry, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly.
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Mary Karr's Pushcart Award-winning essay, "Against Decoration", was originally published in the quarterly review Parnassus and later reprinted in Viper Rum.
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In "Against Decoration", Mary Karr takes a stand in favor of content over style.
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Mary Karr argues that poetry and prayer arise from the same sources within us.
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In 2015, Mary Karr served as the speaker at Syracuse University's 161st commencement.
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Mary Karr was married to poet Michael Milburn for 13 years.
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Mary Karr has described herself as a feminist since the age of 12.