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I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Airline Blue Bomber Came Chord Find Former Girl Heard Helped Him His Many Marshall Out People Pilot Readers Search Since Stone Story Struck War Who World World War World War Ii

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I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Articulate Because Reason Talk Very Write I Write

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In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Amazed Anybody Country Just Kentucky Lives New New York People Read Wants York

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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.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Always Any Anybody City Connection Dreams Familiar Get Grew Kind Miles Much Out Outside Outside World Simply Small Small Town Thing Think Town Up Were World You I Think

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I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Country Fellowship Novel Published Row Used Which Write

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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.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Before Born Country Died Father Girl Her High High School Just Knowledge Quest School She Vietnam Who

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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.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Compelling Culture Discussion Emerged Hidden Legitimate Our Rather Shame Something Than Topic Vietnam 1980S

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'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

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I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Ever Shy Very

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It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Calling Dream Like Romantic Seemed Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 1st, 1940

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