The Mare (44 page)

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Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections
Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To
(nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and
Don't Cry;
her novels are
Two Girls, Fat and Thin
and
Veronica,
which was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a New York Public Library Cullman Center research grant. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, The Best American Short Stories,
and
The O. Henry Prize Stories.