She has also won the Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays. from Syracuse University and marked that occasion as their commencement speaker. In 1989 Mary received the Whiting Award, in 1995 The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for The Liars' Club, and in 2005 a Guggenheim Fellowship. However, she often refers to herself as Catholic lite. Karr has described herself as a feminist since age 12. Karr later attended and graduated from Goddard College, where she studied with the poets Robert Hass and Stephen Dobyns.Īlthough a convert to Catholicism, Karr supports views at odds with Catholic Church teaching: on abortion, she is pro-choice, and she has spoken in favor of women's ordination to the priesthood. Paul, Minnesota, where she studied for two years and met poet Etheridge Knight, one of her first mentors. That same year, Karr started at Macalester College in St. Karr was born in Groves, Texas, on January 16, 1955, and lived there until she moved to Los Angeles in 1972. 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 is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist.
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