Bobbie Ann Mason : (2) " My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class. " - Bobbie Ann Mason " I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read. " - Bobbie Ann Mason