Mary Karr is an American poet born on January 16, 1955 in Texas. She has achieved success in her career, and her net worth, biography, age, height, and family are all well-known. She has been active in the literary world since the 1980s and continues to be a major influence in the poetry world.
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Pushcart Prize-winning poet and author known for The Devil's Tour and The Liars' Club. The latter work, a darkly humorous childhood memoir, remained on the New York Times Best-Seller List for more than a year.
She attended Macalester College and Goddard College. She published her debut poetry collection, Abacus, in 1987.
She was a professor of English at Syracuse University.
She was married to Michael Milburn, with whom she had a child. After her divorce, she briefly dated David Foster Wallace.
Her poetry was greatly influenced by the work of fellow American poet Etheridge Knight.
