Bobbie Ann Mason
Forfatter af In Country
Om forfatteren
Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of the novels "In Country" "Spence+Lila', & "Feather Crowns", which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award & won the Southern Book Award. Her short-story collection "Shiloh & Other Stories" won the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & was vis mere nominated for other major prizes. Her memoir, "Clear Springs", was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", & elsewhere. She lives in Kentucky. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Bobbie Ann Mason
Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there (2005) — Editor & Contributor — 25 eksemplarer
Big Bertha Stories 1 eksemplar
[No title] 1 eksemplar
STORY (Vol. 38 No. 4 / Summer 1990) 1 eksemplar
Laggieu 1 eksemplar
The Iowa Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 2016) 1 eksemplar
Shiloh 1 eksemplar
Tobrah 1 eksemplar
Standing In The Gap 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduktion — 380 eksemplarer
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 345 eksemplarer
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Bidragyder — 141 eksemplarer
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1940-05-01
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Mayfield, Kentucky, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Kentucky (B.A. ∙ Journalism ∙ 1962)
University of Connecticut (Ph.D. ∙ English ∙ 1972)
State University of New York, Binghamton (MA ∙ 1966) - Erhverv
- critic
novelist
short-story writer - Organisationer
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Literature Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1983)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1983)
Hillsdale Award for Fiction (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1984)
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Mason's book is less than 200 pages, but she is quite thorough, and manages to make Elvis's story both objective and intimate at the same time, from his dirt poor Mississippi childhood and awkward years as an outsider at a Memphis high school to his first recordings with Sun Records, and sudden stardom, with the unprincipled Colonel Parker controlling every aspect of his career.
Sadly, Elvis never quite recovered from the "too much too soon" rocket ship of success, and, despite his gifts as a singer and performer, remained uncultured and ignorant, and always under the greedy thumb of Colonel Parker. Always closely attached to his mother he never quite recovered from her early death while he was in the Army. And his last years, drug-addled and overworked, were just sad, I thought, as was his death, at 42.
My hat is off to Mason for making this such a compelling, personal read. I'm so glad I found it. Very highly recommended. Especially, of course, for Elvis fans.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (mere)