Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from western Kentucky.
Mason was born in Mayfield, Kentucky and lived on a dairy farm that her family owned. In 1962 she graduated from the University of Kentucky. She then went to the State University of New York at Binghamton for her M. A. (masters degree). She got her Ph.D. (doctoral degree) in literature from the University of Connecticut in 1972.
Magazines like "The Atlantic" and "The New Yorker" printed her early stories. Her first collection, "Shiloh and Other Stories", came out in 1982. It won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.