Mary Karr
Mary Karr
Mary Karris an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
writing divorce faces
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
alternatives world needs
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
gave-up
He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.
writing terrified
Im always terrified when Im writing.
family running teenager
It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.
country emotional naps
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
horrible-life horrible
I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
audience great head rca secular
Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.