Daniel Mason
For the American composer, see Daniel Gregory Mason.
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
[edit]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 US$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. October 21, 2002. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ "The Piano Tuner, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London". The Independent. October 14, 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ "Daniel Mason talks to Michelle Pauli". The Guardian. April 27, 2007. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ "Creative Writing Program – Daniel Mason Reading". Stanford University. November 2015. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ Mason, Wyatt. "'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.
- ^ "Medicine and literature, mental health and history: A Q&A with psychiatrist-writer Daniel Mason". Scopeblog. Stanford Medicine. October 2, 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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