Mary Karr



Trustee Professor

Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature

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Rar extractor and expander mac. 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 has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Whiting Writer’s Award.

Biography

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. Karr welcomes conversation with her audience and she is known for her spirited, lively, and engaging Q&A sessions. Her poetry grants include The Whiting Writer's Award, an NEA, a Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and a Guggenheim. She has won prizes from Best American Poetry as well as Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and essays. Her five volumes of poetry are Tropic of Squalor (Harper, 2018), which was long-listed for the Pulitzer Prize, Sinners Welcome (HarperCollins, 2006), Viper Rum (Penguin, 1998), The Devil's Tour (New Directions, 1993), and Abacus (Carnegie Mellon, 1986). Her work appears in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, and Parnassus. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University and was the weekly poetry editor for the Washington Post Book World's 'Poet's Choice' column, a position canonized by Bob Hass, Ed Hirsch, and Rita Dove. She lives in Syracuse, New York, and New York City.

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Books

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  • Tropic of Squalor: Poems, by Mary Karr, Harper; 1st Edition edition (May 8, 2018) 96pp., ISBN-13: 978-0062699824

  • The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 6, 2016), 256pp., ISBN-13: 978-0062223074

  • Lit: A Memoir (P.S.), by Mary Karr, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (June 29, 2010), 432pp., ISBN-13: 978-0060596996

  • Sinners Welcome: Poems, by Mary Karr, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (November 3, 2009), 112pp., ISBN-13: 978-0060776565

  • The Liars' Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr, Penguin Books; Reprint edition (May 31, 2005), 352pp., ISBN-13: 978-0143035749

  • Cherry, by Mary Karr, Penguin Books (September 1, 2001), 276pp., ISBN-13: 978-0141002071

  • Viper Rum by Mary Karr, Penguin Books; Reissue edition (September 1, 2001), 96pp., ISBN-13: 978-0142000182

  • The Devil's Tour, by Mary Karr, New Directions (April 17, 1993), 51pp., ISBN-13: 978-0811212311

Areas of Supervision

Memoir and Poetry

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News

Tropic of Squalor

(July 2, 2018)

Mary Karr Lit

New book by Peck Professor Mary Karr highlights irreverent brand of poetic faith

Mary Karr Next Author in Raymond Carver Reading Series

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Acclaimed memoirist and poet to speak Nov. 4.