She did attend Mayfield High School, and in 1960 she wrote for the local newspaper, the
Mayfield Messenger. In 1962 she earned her B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky. Following her graduation, she moved to New York City, taking a job as a writer with Ideal Publishing Company, publisher of fan magazines such as
Movie Stars, Movie Life, and
T. V. Star Parade After about a year in New York she returned to school, receiving an M.A. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1966 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut in 1972. She married writer Roger B. Rawlings on 12 April 1969.
Mason's first published book was her doctoral dissertation, Nabokov's Garden: A Guide to Ada (1974), which was followed by another nonfiction work, this time one that paid homage to her childhood heroines, The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide to the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Their Sisters (1975). Meanwhile, she taught journalism part-tune at Mansfield State College in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, from 1972 to 1979 and began crafting short stories. This return to fiction writing had followed a long, meandering path.
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