![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. ![]()
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