She attended Sydney Catholic schools and then the University of Sydney, completing her Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master's degree in both English and French literature at the University of New England. As an adolescent she read fantasy and science fiction, in particular the works of Ray Bradbury. Masson's French heritage has provided a fertile knowledge of stories, legends and fairytales and she has developed a strong interest in Celtic mythology and the Medieval period. There were frequent returns to Empeaux in the southwest of France. She spent her first nine months of life in Indonesia, then lived in France with her grandmother and aunts in Toulouse until emigrating to Australia with her parents in 1963. Her mother's family came from Northern Portugal, Valencia in Spain and from the Basque region of the Pyrenees her father's from South West France and Quebec in Canada.
Sophie Masson was born in Indonesia to French parents.
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