The Art of Memoir

Name: The Art of Memoir
Author: Mary Karr

by Mary Karr

Insights and wisdom on crafting honest, powerful memoir and personal essay

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Mary Karr

Karr's The Liar's Club reinvigorated the memoir as a literary form in the 1990s with its candid account of a chaotic Texas childhood. She is the most important teacher and theorist of the memoir as a literary genre.

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