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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] 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] In 2024 he received a PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Award for North Woods.
Mason is a psychiatrist affiliated with Stanford Hospital, and teaches literature at Stanford University.[7]
- 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
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