''For the American composer, see
Daniel Gregory Mason
Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic.
Biography
Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Ma ...
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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
Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
The city was es ...
, and received a BA in
biology
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from
Harvard University
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, later graduating from the
UCSF School of Medicine
The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the ol ...
. He wrote his first novel, ''
The Piano Tuner
''The Piano Tuner'' is a historical novel by Daniel Mason, set in British India and Burma. It was first published in 2002 when Mason was 26 and was his first novel.Barrett, Andrea (29 September 2002)"A Few Strings Loose" ''New York Times''. Retriev ...
'', while still a medical student. It was later the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by
Nigel Osborne
Nigel Osborne (born 23 June 1948) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. He served as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh and has also taught at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He is known f ...
to a libretto by
Amanda Holden
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English actress, media personality, and singer. Since 2007, she has been a judge on the television talent show competition ''Britain's Got Talent'' on ITV. She also co-hosts the ''Heart Brea ...
). Mason's second novel, ''
A Far Country
''A Far Country'' is a play by Henry Denker. The work premiered on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on April 4, 1961, where it closed on November 25, 1961, after 271 performances. Produced by Roger L. Stevens and Joel Schenker, the production ...
'', was published in March 2007. His work has been published in 28 countries. He is married to the novelist
Sara Houghteling.
In May 2020, Mason was the recipient of the $50,000
Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize.
[Kosman, Joshia (May 12, 2020]
"Bay Area author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason wins $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize"
''San Francisco Chronicle
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Mason is a psychiatrist affiliated with Stanford Hospital, and teaches literature at Stanford University.
Books
*''
The Piano Tuner
''The Piano Tuner'' is a historical novel by Daniel Mason, set in British India and Burma. It was first published in 2002 when Mason was 26 and was his first novel.Barrett, Andrea (29 September 2002)"A Few Strings Loose" ''New York Times''. Retriev ...
'' - 2002
*''
A Far Country
''A Far Country'' is a play by Henry Denker. The work premiered on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on April 4, 1961, where it closed on November 25, 1961, after 271 performances. Produced by Roger L. Stevens and Joel Schenker, the production ...
'' - 2007
*''Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw'' - 2008
Picador Shots – 'Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw'
. Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
*'' The Winter Soldier'' - 2018
*''A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth
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'' - 2020
See also
* Physician writer
Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.
The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, arranged in alphabetical order.
An ...
References
External links
Interview
with Mason at identitytheory.com
of ''The Piano Tuner'' by Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani (born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for ''The New York Times'' from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.
Early life ...
in ''The New York Times
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21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Harvard University alumni
University of California, San Francisco alumni
Living people
21st-century American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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