Mary Gaitskill
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born
November 11, 1954
gender
female
place of birth
Lexington, Kentucky, The United States
about this author
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. As of 2005, she lived in New York City; Gaitskill has previously lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Marin County, CA, as well as attending the University of Michigan where she earned her B.A. and won a Hopwood Award. Gaitskill has recounted (in her essay "Revelation") becoming a born-again Christian at age 21 but lapsing after six months.
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens, H.K. Browne , Mary Gaitskill avg rating 3.93 — 583 ratings — published 1853 172 editions |
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Veronica: A Novel by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 3.29 — 1,296 ratings — published 2005 8 editions |
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Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 3.97 — 916 ratings — published 1988 7 editions |
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Because They Wanted to: Stories by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 3.90 — 498 ratings — published 1997 4 editions |
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Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 3.51 — 494 ratings — published 1991 6 editions |
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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by Ben Marcus , George Saunders , Aleksandar Hemon , William Gay , Gary Lutz , Kate Braverman , Christine Schutt (Goodreads author) , Jhumpa Lahiri more... avg rating 3.93 — 202 ratings — published 2004 |
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Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 3.44 — 229 ratings — published 2009 |
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Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2009 |
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Open City by Mary Gaitskill, Jeff Koons avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1992 |
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Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying by Dorothy Spears , Mary Gaitskill, David Sedaris, James Salter, Roald Dahl avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Index Magazine June/July 2003 by Peter Halley, Mary Gaitskill avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003 |
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"Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw."
— Mary Gaitskill (Veronica: A Novel)
— Mary Gaitskill (Veronica: A Novel)
"He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it."
— Mary Gaitskill (Bad Behavior)
— Mary Gaitskill (Bad Behavior)
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