TWA Poet: Mary Karr

Born:1955

Today is the birthday of poet and memoirist Mary Karr, born in Groves, Texas (1955). Her parents were both heavy drinkers, and her mother was emotionally unstable and sometimes violent. Once, in the middle of a psychotic break, she tried to kill Mary with a butcher knife. But she was also a voracious reader, so the Karr household was always full of book…