Mary Karr – SVWC 2010 |
Though most widely known for her best-selling memoirs, MARY KARR regards herself primarily as a poet. A 2004 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, she has written four volumes of verse, including the most recent, SINNERS WELCOME. But the critical and popular success of her first memoir, THE LIARS’ CLUB, which remained on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year and was selected as one of the best books of 1995 by The New Yorker, TIME magazine, People, and Entertainment Weekly, ensured her an elevated standing among writers of memoir. Her second memoir, CHERRY, was also a New York Times bestseller and was named a “Best Book” of 2000 by Entertainment Weekly and Amazon.com. Her most recent book in this autobiographical series, LIT: A MEMOIR, is the story of her alcoholism, recovery, and conversion to Catholicism. Karr is a professor of literature at Syracuse University.
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Kati Marton – SVWC 2011
Finally, finally, my parents decided to put their children ahead of their professions – a little late in the day, I would say, but better late than never. And that is when they began to plot our escape.
Kathryn Stockett – SVWC 2011
Southerners are genetically inclined to carry what I call the wishing disease. . .which means the now will never be as interesting as the way it was back then.
