# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-karr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:57:49.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-karr"
name: "Mary Karr"
slug: "mary-karr"
description: "Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University."
tagline: "American poet and essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Karr%2C_HQ_9.8.16.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.1
  momentum:             3.441321034518136
  historical:           7.911754666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.marykarr.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%9B%E4%B8%BD%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E5%B0%94"
    title: "玛丽·卡尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "مارى كار (مؤرخه من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr"
    title: "Mary Karr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr"
    title: "Mary Karr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr"
    title: "Mary Karr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr"
    title: "Mary Karr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%94%D5%A1%D6%80"
    title: "Մերի Քար"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr"
    title: "Mary Karr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Мери Кар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1598388"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump