Bobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write fiction about the antithesis. Her characters are ordinary,...
"'Born to Run' ... that's my whole history, and my whole psychology, and all my subject matter. I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out."1 Bobbie Ann...
The people and terrain of rural western Kentucky figure prominently in the fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason, a highly regarded novelist and short story writer. Herself a native Kentuckian, Mason has chronicled the changes wrought in her region by the...
Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1,1942) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic. Mason was born in Mayfield, Kentucky, where she grew up on her parents' 54-acre dairy farm. As a child she loved to read, and her parents...
IN 1982, Harper & Row's Ted Solotaroff published a first collection of stories by a young writer from Kentucky. Bobbie Ann Mason's Shiloh and Other Stories went on to win the Hemingway Foundation award for best first fiction and to be a ftnalist for...
AMY DRISCOLL, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-06-2006 Bobbie Ann Mason throws open a family album By AMY DRISCOLL, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Date: 08-06-2006, Sunday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions * NANCY CULPEPPER STORIES, by Bobbie Ann Mason; Random, 240 pages,...
In the following essay, Price examines Mason's use of central themes and metaphoric images to illustrate how the characters in Shiloh, and Other Stories adapt to changes in their daily lives and in their landscape.
In the following essay, Pollack examines Mason's role as a southern literary figure, and asserts that Feather Crowns cemented Mason's place as a noted women's historian.
