Author

Books by Mary Karr

Mary Karr is an American memoirist and poet whose three volumes of autobiography — The Liars' Club, Cherry, and Lit — established her as one of the leading voices in the form. Born in 1955 in East Texas, she has taught at Syracuse University for decades and is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature. Her essay collection The Art of Memoir, published in 2015, is widely used in creative writing programs. She has received Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, among other honors. The Liars' Club remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year after its 1995 publication.