page_title: Mary Gaitskill
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Gaitskill
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Gaitskill at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
context_page_description: Mary Gaitskill 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.
context_section_description: Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) 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 (1993, 2006, 2012), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998, 2008).
caption: Gaitskill at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
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