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For the American composer, see Daniel Gregory Mason.

Daniel Mason (b. ca. 1976) is an American novelist and physician. He is the author of The Piano Tuner and A Far Country. 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] 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 Simpson/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

See also

• Physician writer

References

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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