Daniel Mason

Not to be confused with Daniel Masson.

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. 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). Mason's second novel, A Far Country, was published in March 2007. His work has been published in 28 countries.

In May 2020, Mason was the recipient of the $50,000 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize.

Mason is a psychiatrist affiliated with Stanford Hospital, and teaches literature at Stanford University. In 2009 he married Sara Houghteling, also a novelist. She published her first novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, shortly before their marriage. They have two sons.

Books

• The Piano Tuner - 2002
• A Far Country - 2007
• Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw - 2008
• The Winter Soldier - 2018
• A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth - 2020

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