Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of bestsellers The Liars' Club, Cherry and Lit. In her newest book, The Art of Memoir,
Karr describes memoir as a way to cut a path back to the writer's past and rediscover it. The book is intended for general audiences, but writers will find useful information here. Karr is credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. In The Art of Memoir, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker,
