Mary Karr

writer

Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of *Lit*, the sequel to her critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling memoirs *The Liars' Club* and *Cherry*. A sought-after speaker, Karr has given distinguished talks at prestigious universities, libraries, and writers' festivals, including Harvard University, Oxford University, Princeton University, Brown University, Syracuse University ("On Salmon Rushdie" with Salmon Rushdie), the New York Public Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Folger Library (Poetry Society of America/Emily Dickinson Lecture), The New Yorker Literary Festival, PEN/Faulkner, and the Festival of Faith and Writing.