A third memoir, Lit, which she says details 'my journey from blackbelt sinner and lifelong agnostic to unlikely Catholic,' came out in November 2009. She followed the book with another memoir, Cherry (2000), about her late adolescence and early womanhood. She was encouraged to write her personal history by her friend, author Tobias Wolff, but has said she only took up the project when her marriage fell apart. It delves vividly and often humorously into her deeply troubled childhood, most of which was spent in a gritty, industrial section of Southeast Texas in the 1960s. The Liars' Club, published in 1995, was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, and was named one of the year's best books.

In her memoirs, Karr calls the town 'Leechfield.' Karr's father worked in an oil refinery while her mother was an amateur artist and business owner.

Karr was born January 16, 1955, in Groves, a small town in East Texas located in the Port Arthur region, known for its oil refineries and chemical plants, to J. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509859399 Number of pages: 288 Weight: 463 g Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17 mm You may also be interested in.Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. And the dramas and happenings of her life are of an intensity that few others ever experience. Her prose is lustrous and cinematic, her humour earthy and irresistible. Although there are other memoirs that pay close attention to the process of self-creation and destruction that young girls go through, with all its accompanying anguish, self-consciousness and inertia, there is no one who writes about it like Mary Karr. Karr's edgy, brilliant prose careens between hilarity and tragedy. Yearning, like a typical teenager, for the ideal love or heart's companion who will make her feel whole again, she throws in her lot with an varied and outrageous band surfers, yogis, bona fide geniuses. In this paperback of her long-awaited sequel, we find Karr once again trying to run from the thrills and terrors of her psychological and physical awakening by violently crashing up against authority in all its forms, shuttling between the principal's office and the jail cell.

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