Award-winning, best-selling memoirist Mary Karr has struck a deal with HBO to write a pilot for a TV series based on her critically acclaimed memoir, "Lit," the author announced today on her Facebook page:
"Big news: just came to terms with HBO to write a pilot for a new TV series based on LIT. Found a new canvas to splash paint on"
Published in November 2009, "Lit" is Karr's third memoir, after the best-selling "The Liars' Club" (1995), about her tumultuous childhood in East Texas, and "Cherry" (2001), about her drug-addled adolescence. In "Lit," Karr describes how embracing spirituality, as a Catholic, helped her to climb up out of alcoholism. In a review in The New York Times, Susan Cheever called it "the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years."
Karr divides her time between Manhattan and Syracuse, where she is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. She also is the author of several volumes of poetry, including "Sinners Welcome" and "Vipers Rum."
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