American - Novelist | May 1, 1940 -
I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
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In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
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I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.
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I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
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'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
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I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.
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It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.
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Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
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In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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