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Bobbie Ann Mason | | Birth Date: |
1 May 1940 |
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 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
9,143 words, approx. 31 pages
 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,... summary from source:
 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
4,850 words, approx. 16 pages
"'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... summary from source:
Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
3,552 words, approx. 12 pages
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... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Bobbie Ann Mason Information
533 words, approx. 2 pages
 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...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Joanna Price
10,502 words, approx. 35 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.
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Critical Essay by Harriet Pollack
9,871 words, approx. 33 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Andrew Levy
8,732 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Levy discusses the short story “Shiloh” and how it fits into the overall history of the short story genre.
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