Mary Karr, a distinguished poet and author of the memoirs The Liar’s Club, Cherry, and Lit, receives the first annual Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, honoring a distinguished woman writer of nonfiction whose work exemplifies the independent-minded, intellectually advanced, important life and work of Rinehart herself, one of the most popular U.S. writers of the first half of the 20th century. Sponsored by the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation.
