Mary Karr

Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars' Club , Cherry , and Lit , as well as The Art of Memoir , also a New York Times bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.

Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars' Club , Cherry , and Lit , as well as The Art of Memoir , also a New York Times bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. See less