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Mary Gaitskill

(1954 - )

About Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill 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.

Novels

Bad Behavior (1988)
Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991)
Veronica (2005)

Collections

Because They Wanted to (1997)

Awards

	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Collection nominee (1998) : Because They Wanted to
	National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : Veronica

Mary Gaitskill recommends

Bastard Out of Carolina (1992)
Dorothy Allison
"Resonant, emotionally complex and strong as hell."

The Losers' Club (2005)
Richard Perez
"A very beautiful valentine to a time and place almost faded from existence."

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