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Mary Karr |
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Mary Karr's three volumes of poetry are Viper Rum (New
Directions), The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. Her poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have
appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Parnassus. Her memoir, The
Liar's Club, was a New York Times bestseller for more than a year and was selected as one of the best books of
1995 by many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Time, People, and Entertainment Weekly. Cherry (Viking),
her follow up to The Liar's Club, was a bestseller for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Los
Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, and was named "Best Book" of 2000 by Entertainment
Weekly, Us, and Amazon.com. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College and is now the Jesse Truesdell
Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in
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