“Girl in Purple, The.” New Flash Fiction Review, December 10, 2014. http://newflashfiction.com/bobbie-ann-mason/. Copyright © 2014 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
Girl in the Blue Beret, The. New York: Random House, 2011. Copyright © 2011 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Chapters 1, 2, and 17 and “Behind the Book” used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Girl Sleuth, The. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Copyright © 1975 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Excerpt reprinted by permission.
“Hear My Song.” New Yorker, March 20, 1995. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Horsehair Ball Gown, The.” Virginia Quarterly Review 89, no. 2 (Spring 2013). Reprinted by permission.
“Hot Colors.” New Yorker, September 1, 1980. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
In Country. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Excerpt reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason, An.” By Candela Delgado Marín. Transatlantica [online] 2 (March 2015). http:transatlantica.revues.org/7141. Reprinted by permission.
“Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason, An.” By Jo Sapp and Evelyn Somers. Missouri Review, 1997. Reprinted by permission.
“La Bamba Hotline.” New Yorker, September 7, 1987. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Love Life.” In Love Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Memphis.” In Love Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Midnight Magic.” In Love Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Nancy Culpepper.” In Nancy Culpepper. New York: Random House, 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Offerings.” In Shiloh and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Pond, The.” In Clear Springs. New York: Random House, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Prelude, The.” In Nancy Culpepper. New York: Random House, 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Quinceañera.” Good Housekeeping, July 2013. Originally published under the title “Dance with Me.” Copyright © 2013 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“Reaching the Stars: My Life as a Fifties Groupie.” New Yorker, May 26, 1986. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Reading Between the Lines.” Virginia Quarterly Review 90, no. 2 (Spring 2014). Reprinted by permission.
“Real Girl in the Blue Beret, The.” Page Turners. New Yorker, May 18, 2013. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/the-real-girl-in-the-blue-beret.html. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Sanctuary.” New Yorker, October 5, 1981. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Sheep Down Under.” New Yorker, May 4, 1987. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Shiloh.” In Shiloh and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“State Pen, The.” Elm Leaves Journal, Winter 2016. Reprinted by permission.
“Talking through Hats.” Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, Winter 2015. Reprinted by permission.
“Terms of Office.” New Yorker, July 26, 1993. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
“Third Monday.” In Shiloh and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
Twain, Mark. American Claimant, The. Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Introduction copyright © 2004 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
2paragraphs Interview. By Joseph Mackin. Courtesy of 2paragraphs.com.
“Universe of Ada, The.” In Nabokov’s Garden. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974. Reprinted by permission.
“Whale Love.” The Nervous Breakdown, August 21, 2013. thenervousbreakdown.com. Copyright © 2013 by Bobbie Ann Mason and Meg Pokrass. Reprinted by permission.
“Wish.” In Love Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Reprinted by permission.
“With Jazz.” In Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail. New York: Random House, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Bobbie Ann Mason. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Bobbie Ann Mason is best known for Shiloh and Other Stories and the novels In Country and The Girl in the Blue Beret. Her many awards include the PEN/Hemingway Award; the Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Southern Book Critics Circle Award; and the Kentucky Book Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, Story, Five Points, and other publications, and it has been featured in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and other collections. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Mason was writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky (2001–2011), and she is a member of the Authors Guild, PEN America, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She lives in Kentucky.
www.bobbieannmason.net
BOOKS
Fiction
Shiloh and Other Stories
In Country
Spence + Lila
Love Life
Feather Crowns
Midnight Magic
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail
An Atomic Romance
Nancy Culpepper
The Girl in the Blue Beret
Nonfiction
Nabokov’s Garden
The Girl Sleuth
Clear Springs
Elvis Presley
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