News Release
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February 28, 2006
Novelist Bobbie Ann Mason to Give Reading at Boise State
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Bobbie Ann Mason, an acclaimed novelist, will give a
reading at 7:30 p.m. March 10 in the Liberal Arts Building, room 106 at Boise State University. Her appearance
is part of the annual MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.
Mason grew up in Mayfield, Ky., where her father was a dairy farmer. She
uses her rural background as the settings for her texts, and her stories
center around the working-class people of western Kentucky. Her first
collection, Shiloh and Other Stories, won the 1982 Hemingway
Foundation Award. In 1985 reviewers of her novel In Country compared
her to Ann Beattie and other �writers of her generation who chronicle
aimless lives in prose that tends to be as laconic and stripped down as her
characters� emotional range.�
Mason is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship as
well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she has written several novels. Her
most recent works are An Atomic Romance: A Novel, Clear Springs: A Family
Story and Midnight Magic: Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason.
Free and open to the public, Boise State�s MFA Reading Series brings
nationally-known authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers
include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Liz Waldner, Joy Williams
and Denis Johnson.
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Contact: Elizabeth L. Barnes, MFA program,
elizabethlester@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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Idaho with about 18,600 students and 2,200 faculty and staff. More than 190
undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and technical degrees are offered within
eight colleges. A metropolitan university located in the capital city, Boise
State is committed to life-enhancing research, teaching excellence and
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