Bobbie Ann Mason
American novelist and short-story writer from Kentucky whose In Country is a celebrated novel about a young woman's reckoning with the Vietnam War. Her Shiloh and Other Stories is equally admired. She is an important voice in American working-class and Southern literary fiction.
Works
- Shiloh and Other StoriesCollection of interconnected stories of contemporary working-class Kentucky life
- In CountryYoung woman confronts Vietnam trauma through her uncle's war experiences
- Spence and LilaAging couple navigates illness and change in rural Kentucky marriage
- Feather CrownsWoman's motherhood and survival tested by multiple births and historical upheaval
- An Atomic RomanceWoman's atomic bomb experience transformed into family story and personal mythology
- Spence + LilaAging couple navigates illness and change in rural Kentucky marriage
- The Girl in the Blue BeretWoman journalist's midlife investigation of her WWII lover during Paris occupation