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Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill is most recently the author of Because
They
Wanted To
, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner
Award
in 1998. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New
Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short
Stories
(1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories
(1998). Her
story Secretary was the basis for the film of the
same
name. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she teaches
creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New
York.

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Series

Books:

This Is Pleasure . . . and This Is Pain, May 2027
Hardcover / e-Book
The Mare, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Don't Cry: Stories, April 2009
Hardcover
Veronica, October 2005
Hardcover