Bobbie Ann Mason goes to RH. (author Bobbie Ann Mason leaves HarperCollins for a two-book contract with Random House)(Brief Article)

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 the NBCC, the PEN/Faulkner and the American Book Award. Its author went on to write In Country, Spence & Lila, Love Life and most recently, Feather Crowns (1993), all of which were published by Harper--transmogrified later into HarperCollins--and all of which garnered more kudos for both publisher and author. But in the words of Mason's agent, Ama...