Journey: A Personal Odyssey

As an actress, Marsha Mason has had a varied and very successful career. Winner of the Golden Globe award as best actress and a four-time Academy Award(R) nominee, she has worked in film (perhaps most notably in the movies "Cinderella Liberty, Chapter Two," and "The Goodbye Girl)," television (most recently as Sherry on "Frasier)," and the theater (having performed in London's West End, on and off Broadway, and in regional theater around the U.S.). While the path she followed to achieve her success was seldom an easy one, Marsha Mason never wavered in her determination. She wanted to be an actress -- that much she knew even as a young girl growing up in a modest neighborhood in St. Louis. For her, acting would be an escape, a chance to be someone other than the girl who seemed always to disappoint and anger her parents, the ticket that would take her out of their provincial, strict Catholic household and transport her to another world somewhere between reality and fantasy. Now, in "Journey," Marsha Mason retraces the path she followed out of her difficult childhood. She moved to New York City, where she worked as a waitress aMason, Marsha is the author of 'Journey: A Personal Odyssey' with ISBN 9780684815244 and ISBN 0684815249.