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Mary Gaitskill
American writer (born )
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, ) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (, , , ), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (, ). Her books include the short story collection Bad Behavior () and Veronica (), which was nominated for both the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
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Life
Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She has lived in New York City, Toronto, San Francisco, Marin County and Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Michigan, where she earned her B.A. in [1] 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 age 18 because she was "indignant about things—it was