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Bobbie ann mason bio, facts, family famous birthdays. A multilayered narrative of three generationsbobbie ann mason, her parents and grandparentsclear springs gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a kentucky farm to travels around the south with mason as president of the hilltoppers fan club. For 30 years bobbie ann mason has been one of the most preeminent writers in american life through novels and short stories that paint the story of change in the south after world war ii. Examining her roots in rural kentucky, where she was born in 1940, mason unravels her familys history and considers its impact on her as a person and a writer.
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