Daniel Mason Explained

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] The 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]

Mason is a psychiatrist affiliated with Stanford Hospital, and teaches literature at Stanford University.^[7]

Books

• 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

• Physician writer

External links

• Interview with Mason at identitytheory.com
• Review of The Piano Tuner by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times

Notes and References

1. Web site: Daniel Mason . Identity Theory . 2002-10-21 . 2018-12-21.
2. Web site: The Piano Tuner, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London. 14 October 2004. The Independent. 21 December 2018.
3. Web site: Daniel Mason talks to Michelle Pauli. 27 April 2007. 21 December 2018. www.theguardian.com.
4. Web site: Creative Writing Program  - Daniel Mason Reading . Stanford University . 2018-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180611172814/http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/events/daniel-mason-reading . November 2015 . 2018-06-11 . dead.
5. Mason, Wyatt. Web site: 'If this Book is Not Expressing Everything What am I Doing with my Life' . The New York Times Magazine. 2018.
6. Kosman, Joshia (May 12, 2020) "Bay Area author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason wins $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize" San Francisco Chronicle
7. Web site: Medicine and literature, mental health and history: A Q&A with psychiatrist-writer Daniel Mason.
8. " Picador Shots  - 'Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw'". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-05-26.