| 词条 | Bobbie Ann Mason |
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Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is a Southern United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky. Early lifeA child of Wilburn and Christina Mason, Bobbie Ann Mason grew up on her family's dairy farm outside of Mayfield, Kentucky with four siblings.[1] As a child she loved to read with encouragement from her parents, however choices were limited. These books were mostly popular fiction about the Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew mysteries. She would later write a book about these books she read in adolescence titled The Girl Sleuth: A feminist guide to the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Their Sisters.[2] Mason credits her time at a grade school in Cuba, Kentucky with influencing her adult fictional characters.[3] After high school, Mason went on to major in English at the University of Kentucky.[1] After graduating in 1962, she worked for a fan magazine publisher in New York City, writing articles about various stars who were in the spotlight for movie magazines that Mason describes as "fluff."[3] She earned her master's degree at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1966. Next she went to graduate school at the University of Connecticut, where she subsequently received her Ph.D. in literature with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov's Ada in 1972. Her dissertation was published in paperback form as Nabokov's Garden two years later while Mason taught at Mansfield University.[1] CareerBy the time she was in her late thirties, Mason started to write short stories. In 1980, The New Yorker published her first story. "It took me a long time to discover my material", she said. "It wasn't a matter of developing writing skills, it was a matter of knowing how to see things. And it took me a very long time to grow up. I'd been writing for a long time, but was never able to see what there was to write about. I always aspired to things away from home, so it took me a long time to look back at home and realize that that's where the center of my thought was." Mason writes about the working-class people of Western Kentucky, and her short stories have contributed to a renaissance of regional fiction in America creating a literary style that critics have labeled "shopping mall realism."[4] Mason then went on to write a collection of short stories, Shiloh and Other Stories. In 1985, she wrote her first novel, In Country, which eventually was made into a feature film (see below). She followed In Country with another novel in 1988, Spence and Lila. She has since published several more short story collections (see below). In 2016, Mason became the second living author to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.[5] Works and awards overviewMason's dissertation, a critique of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor, was published in 1974. A year later, she published The Girl Sleuth, a feminist assessment of Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, and other fictional girl detectives. Mason's first volume of short stories, Shiloh and Other Stories, appeared in 1982 and won the 1983 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for outstanding first works of fiction. Mason's novel In Country is often cited as one of the seminal literary works of the 1980s. Its protagonist attempts to come to terms with a number of important generational issues, ranging from the Vietnam War to consumer culture. A film version was produced in 1989, starring Emily Lloyd as the protagonist and Bruce Willis as her uncle. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. Mason has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently the writer in residence at the University of Kentucky. Her short story Wish appears in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Selected works{{Library resources box|by=yes|lcheading=Mason, Bobbie Ann}}Short story collections:
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |last1=Deuschle |first1=Rich |title=Pennsylvania Center for the Book: Bobbie Ann Mason |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Mason__Bobbie_Ann |website=pabook.libraries.psu.edu |accessdate=27 July 2018 |language=en}} 2. ^{{cite journal |last1=Delgado |first1=Marín, Candela |title=An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason |journal=Transatlantica |date=30 December 2014 |issue=2 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7141 |accessdate=27 July 2018 |issn=1765-2766}} 3. ^{{cite web |last1=Alger |first1=Derek |title='Bobbie Ann Mason' interviewed by Derek Alger |url=http://www.pifmagazine.com/2012/07/bobbie-ann-mason/ |website=Pif Magazine |accessdate=27 July 2018}} 4. ^{{Citation|last = Conarroe|first = Joel|title = Winning Her Father's War|newspaper = New York Times|date = 15 September 1985|url = https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/09/specials/mason-country.html|access-date = 18 March 2016}} 5. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article52716175.html|title=Bobbie Ann Mason named to Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame|last=Eblen|first=Tom|date=2 January 2016|work=Lexington Herald-Leader|access-date=17 September 2016|via=}} Further reading
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