Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of numerous books, beginning with Shiloh and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her memoir Clear Springs was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book is the novel The Girl in the Blue Beret.
“Some things you could make happen, but life was made up mostly of things that happened to you, and even that didn’t account for the way fractured lives somehow held together.”
