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Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. A nominee for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Faulkner, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.