Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars’ Club, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Cherry, and Lit, which was one of the New York Times Book Review‘s Ten Best Books of the Year and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Karr has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays. She is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University In The Art of Memoir (Harper) Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of memoir that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre. In their Top 10 Notable Book Citation, New York Times Book Review calls it, “A master class on the art of the memoir.”
