LIARS' CLUB AUTHOR TO READ OCTOBER 7

Mary Karr, whose 1995 memoir The Liars' Club remained on The New York Times' bestseller list for more than a year, is giving a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall.

Free and open to the public, Karr's appearance at the College is part of a yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series featuring award-winning novelists, short fiction writers and poets.

Described by former poet laureate Robert Hass as "one of the best-loved, most widely read works of literary nonfiction in this decade," Mary Karr's poignant memoir of her East Texas childhood was selected for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for best first nonfiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for best nonfiction.

The Liars' Club's sequel, Cherry, published in 2000, was excerpted in the New Yorker and also was listed as a bestseller in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Karr's collections of poems and essays, including Abacus, The Devil's Tour and Viper Rum, won Pushcart Prizes and her writing has appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, The Atlantic and Parnassus.

A former Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, Karr was a winner of the prestigious Whiting Writer's Award and recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry. She holds the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professorship of Literature at Syracuse University, where she teaches literature and creative writing.

Karr's reading is sponsored by the Lucy Martin Donnelly Women Writers Series.

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