She filled my head with dreams of escape and adventure and being somebody."
3 By the age of ten Mason began writing mystery stories of her own, imitating the children's books she was reading at the time. Neither of her parents graduated from high school, but they insisted that their daughter attend the "city school" in Mayfield rather than the country school for a better education. It was at Mayfield High that Mason got her first taste of the tensions between city and country life. "City people tended to look down on country people.... Maybe not as much as the country people thought they did, but the country people felt very awkward around city people--and of course we're talking about a town of 8,000. In that part of the world I think there's a special kind of class difference, not so much between the upper and the lower class as between the people who live in town and the people who live in the country."1
While still a teenager, Mason "held a national office, published a journal, was interviewed on television and radio, and traveled widely to places like Cincinnati and Detroit and Blytheville, Arkansas.
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