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Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. [1] She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club . Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University .
The Liars' Club is a memoir by the American author Mary Karr.Published in 1995 by Viking Adult, the book tells the story of Karr's childhood in the 1960s in a small industrial town in Southeast Texas. [1]
As a writer, Zailckas says her writing is informed by memoirists Mary Karr, Nick Flynn, Tobias Wolff, as well as novelists T. C. Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, A. M. Homes, Richard Ford, Haruki Murakami, Amy Hempel, George Saunders and Lorrie Moore. She has also admitted she is heavily influenced by music and song lyrics.
As Mary James, she wrote books for younger children. Meaker won multiple awards including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award. [1] She was described by The New York Times Book Review as "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction." [citation needed]
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, is a Dear America novel written by American author Mary Pope Osborne, first published in 1998. The novel is set in Delaware Valley , Pennsylvania in 1763.
Patchwork Girl or a Modern Monster by Mary/Shelly and Herself is a work of electronic literature by American author Shelley Jackson. It was written in Storyspace and published by Eastgate Systems in 1995. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story as an important work of hypertext fiction.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood.The book details his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland.
Unknown to them, Tom, away fighting in World War II, has already written to Mary. When he comes home, the two marry. Tom begins his teaching career while Mary takes a job in an old people's home. The novel returns to the present day, with Tom's growing horror over the child taken by Mary, who believes it is a gift from God.