Daniel Mason
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Daniel Mason (born c. 1976) is an American novelist and physician. He is the author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country and North Woods.
Biography
He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and received a BA in biology from Harvard University, later graduating from the UCSF School of Medicine.[1]
He wrote his first novel, The Piano Tuner (2002), while still a medical student. It was later the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by Nigel Osborne to a libretto by Amanda Holden).[2] Mason's second novel, A Far Country, was published in March 2007.[3] North Woods was published in 2023. His work has been published in 28 countries.[4] He is married to the novelist Sara Houghteling.[5] In May 2020, Mason was the recipient of the Template:Currency Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize.[6] In 2024 he received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for North Woods.
Mason is a psychiatrist affiliated with Stanford Hospital, and teaches literature at Stanford University.[7]
North Woods was longlisted in 2025 for the International Dublin Literary Award.[8]
Books
- The Piano Tuner (2002)
- A Far Country (2007)
- Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw (2008)[9]
- The Winter Soldier (2018)
- A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth (2020)
- North Woods (2023)
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Daniel Mason". Identity Theory. October 21, 2002. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Piano Tuner, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London". The Independent. October 14, 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Daniel Mason talks to Michelle Pauli". The Guardian. April 27, 2007. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Creative Writing Program – Daniel Mason Reading". Stanford University. November 2015. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ Mason, Wyatt. Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything What Am I Doing with My Life'". The New York Times Magazine. September 12, 2018.
- ^ Kosman, Joshia (May 12, 2020). "Bay Area author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason wins $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Medicine and literature, mental health and history: A Q&A with psychiatrist-writer Daniel Mason". Scopeblog. Stanford Medicine. October 2, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.IGO (January 14, 2025). "North Woods". Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
- ^ "Picador Shots – 'Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw'". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
External links
- Interview with Mason at identitytheory.com
- Review of The Piano Tuner by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times
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