Mary Karr, author of The New York Times bestselling memoir “The Liars’ Club,” will present a free public reading from her works Feb. 27 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mary Karr, author of The New York Times bestselling memoir “The Liars’ Club,” will present a free public reading from her works Feb. 27 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The 2013 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Mary Karr will read at 7:30 p.m. in G-100, the auditorium on the lower/ground floor of the Genome Sciences Building, 250 Bell Tower Road. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Free parking is available in the Bell Tower parking deck after 5 p.m.
In “The Liars’ Club,” “Cherry,” and “Lit,” she created a trilogy of memoirs that follows her from a troubled childhood in Southeast Texas, to her terrifying and sometimes hilarious circus of adolescence and sexual awakening, and finally through her struggles with alcoholism and her conversion to Catholicism.
She has written four volumes of poetry—“Abacus,” “The Devil’s Tour,” “Viper Rum” and “Sinners Welcome”—and is a recognized songwriter. In 2011, she teamed up with Rodney Crowell to record the album “Kin,” featuring Roseanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Norah Jones and many others.
Karr has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She has won a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and a Whiting Writer’s Award. She currently teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu