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Daniel Mason

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Daniel Mason
Daniel Mason accepting a Northern California Book Award at the San Francisco Public Library in 2019
Bornc. 1976
Alma mater
OccupationsWriter, physician

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

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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.[2][3] It was later the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by Nigel Osborne to a libretto by Amanda Holden).[4] Mason's second novel, A Far Country, was published in March 2007.[5] North Woods was published in 2023.[6]

His work has been translated into 28 languages.[2] In May 2020, Mason was the recipient of the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize.[7] In 2024 he received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for North Woods.[8] North Woods was shortlisted in 2025 for the Dublin Literary Award.[9][10]

Mason is a psychiatrist affiliated with Stanford Hospital,[11] and teaches literature at Stanford University.[12] He is married to the novelist Sara Houghteling.[11]

Books

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  • 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)
  • North Woods (2023)
  • Country People (2026)

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Birbaum, Robert (October 21, 2002). "Daniel Mason". Identity Theory. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Ravas, Zack (June 22, 2020). "Q&A with Daniel Mason: Diagnosis and Distillation". ZYZZYVA. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  3. ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (September 17, 2002). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Debut Novel Born of Homer, Conrad and Malaria". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  4. ↑ Seckerson, Edward (October 14, 2004). "The Piano Tuner, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London". The Independent. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ Pauli, Michelle (April 27, 2007). "A taste for adventure". The Guardian. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ Simon, Scott (September 23, 2023). "Daniel Mason on his novel 'North Woods'". NPR. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  7. ↑ Kosman, Joshua (May 12, 2020). "Bay Area author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason wins $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Awards & Award Winners". PEN Oakland. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  9. ↑ "North Woods". Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  10. ↑ Dhuibhne, Éilís Ní (March 25, 2025). "Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut". The Irish Times. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  11. 1 2 Mason, Wyatt (September 12, 2018). "'If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything, What Am I Doing With My Life?'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  12. ↑ Greicius, Julie (October 2, 2018). "Medicine and literature, mental health and history: A Q&A with psychiatrist-writer Daniel Mason". Stanford News Center.
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