Mary Karr
Auteur de The Liars' Club: A Memoir
A propos de l'auteur
Mary Karr's memoir, "The Liars' Club," won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. A poet & essayist, she has won Pushcart prizes in both genres. Her other grants & awards include the prestigious Whiting Award & the Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. Her previous poetry collections are "Abacus," "The afficher plus Devil's Tour," & "Viper Rum." She is a full professor at Syracuse University. (Publisher Provided) Mary Karr was born in Groves, Texas on January 16, 1955. She received an M.F.A. from Goddard College in 1979. Before becoming a poet and memoirist, she held various jobs in the computer and telecommunications industries. Her works include Lit, The Liars' Club, Cherry, and The Art of Memoir. She has also published four volumes of poetry: Abacus, The Devil's Tour, Viper, and Sinners Welcome. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and her essays. She was an assistant professor at numerous colleges and universities including Tufts University, Emerson College, Harvard University, and Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Mary Karr
The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford 1 exemplaire
The Liars' Club Reader's Guide 1 exemplaire
Klub Łgarzy 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1955-01-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Groves, Texas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Groves, Texas, USA
Colorado, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Port Neches-Groves High School (Texas)
Goddard College - Professions
- poet
essayist - Organisations
- Sarah Lawrence College (poetry teacher)
Syracuse University (Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature) - Prix et distinctions
- Radcliffe College Bunting Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship (Poetry, 2004)
Whiting Writers' Award (1989) - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 8,151
- Popularité
- #2,968
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 181
- ISBN
- 107
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 13
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