Author Bobbie Ann Mason to Speak October 5 Wilkes University's Department of Humanities will present An Evening with Bobbie Ann Mason on Thursday, October 5, at 8 p.m. in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, located on the corner of West and South River Streets. Mason's presentation is sponsored by the Department of Humanities' Allan Hamilton Dickson Endowment, a fund created for cultural outreach in the literary arts.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Known for her recollections and illustrations of rural Kentucky life, Mason was reared on a dairy farm in Mayfield by her parents, Wilburn Arnett and Christianna Lee Mason. Shiloh depicts the lives of the working class in an emerging, changing and quickly developing rural society. Mason's memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 2000. It was also made into a motion picture by Warner Brothers - directed by Norman Jewison and starring Emily Lloyd and Bruce Willis. Mason's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Boston Review, The Washington Post Magazine, and many more.