Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories , and The O. Henry Prize Stories .
Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She has lived in New York City, 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. She sold flowers in San Francisco as a teenage runaway. In a conversation with novelist and short story writer Matthew Sharpe for BOMB Magazine, Gaitskill said she chose to become a writer at agebecause she was indignant about thingsit was the typical teenage sense of things are wrong in the world and I must say something. Gaitskill has also recounted becoming a bornagain Christian at agebut lapsing after six months. She married the writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. They separated in 2010. Gaitskill lives in Rhinebeck, New York.
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