Poet and Memoirist Mary Karr. Author of the best selling Liars Club, she has just published a new book chronicling her teen age years entitled Cherry (Penguin Putnam, 2000). In a follow up to what critics call a "hard scrabble" childhood, she returns to East Texas to detail her adolescence. Karr relates anecdotes of rebellion, self doubt and sexual coming of age. The recipient of several literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Bunting Award, she has published two volumes of poetry. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
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