Mary Karr

Mary Karr ( born January 16, 1955 in Groves, Texas) is an American writer and poet.

Life

Mary Karr grew up in a small town in the Texas Port Arthur region. After graduating from high school she went with a group of friends to Los Angeles, where she lived for several months in the hippie culture. After two years of study at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Mary Karr learned in the anti - apartheid movement, the African-American poet Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) know who influenced her artistic development. At Goddard College ( Vermont) she studied creative writing and earned the 1979 Master of Fine Arts (MFA ) Your mentor was Tobias Wolff. Other influences came from the poet Robert Bly and Robert Hass.

Since 1980, Mary Karr worked in Boston in various activities of the computer and telecommunications industry. During this time she wrote and published her poems. From 1983 until the divorce in 1991, Mary Karr was married to the poet Michael Milburn. The marriage comes from a son. After various teaching at educational institutions Tufts University, Emerson College, Harvard University and Sarah Lawrence College, Mary Karr is a professor of English Literature at Syracuse University in Boston. Here she met David Foster Wallace.

Publications

• The Devil's Tour. New Directions, New York 1993
• The Liars'Club. Viking Penguin, New York 1995 The club of liars. From the American translated by Sabine Roth. Goldmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-442-30702-3