Daniel Mason
For the American composer, see Daniel Gregory Mason.
Daniel Mason (born ca. 1976) is an American novelist and physician. He is the author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country and North Woods.
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, 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 $50,000 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]
Books
[edit]- The Piano Tuner – 2002
- A Far Country – 2007
- Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw – 2008[8]
- The Winter Soldier – 2018
- A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth – 2020
- North Woods – 2023
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Daniel Mason". Identity Theory. 2002-10-21. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "The Piano Tuner, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London". The Independent. 14 October 2004. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Daniel Mason talks to Michelle Pauli". The Guardian. 27 April 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Creative Writing Program – Daniel Mason Reading". Stanford University. November 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ Mason, Wyatt. "'If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything What Am I Doing with My Life'". The New York Times Magazine. 12 September 2018.
- ^ Kosman, Joshia (May 12, 2020). "Bay Area author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason wins $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Medicine and literature, mental health and history: A Q&A with psychiatrist-writer Daniel Mason". Scopeblog. Stanford Medicine. 2 October 2018.
- ^ "Picador Shots – 'Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw'". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
External links
[edit]- Interview with Mason at identitytheory.com
- Review of The Piano Tuner by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times
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