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Daniel Mason graduated from Harvard College with a degree in biology. The following year he spent researching malaria on the Thai-Myanmar border, and upon his return to the United States he began medical school at the University of California at San Francisco. He has also written his first novel, The Piano Tuner. The story is about a 19th century Englishman, a piano tuner, who journeys to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare grand piano for a British army surgeon major. Mason is continuing his medical studies and working on his second novel.

Robert Birnbaum: One review I read commented on The Piano Tuner being a wonderful 19th century novel. I started to think about what that meant and that led me to wonder what possessed you to spend a year in what seems to be a primitive place, the jungle of Myanmar?

Daniel Mason: I went there for malaria research. I studied malaria while I was here [Boston/Harvard] as an undergraduate and shortly before I graduated there were field reports of a phenomenon that we were studying here—very theoretically, because we don't have any cases—

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Daniel Mason in conversation about discipline, style and the inspiration for his fourth novel

Daniel Mason’s virtuosic fourth novel, North Woods, is the story of a single house deep in the woods of New England. The first stone is laid in a clearing by a young man who has fled the established Puritan Colony with his lover, who was promised to a wife-beating minister twice her age. This house—first a simple homestead, a cabin built of log and stone by the pair of runaways—will stand for 400 years in one form or another, and this astonishing novel tells of those who inhabit it over the centuries, both human and animal, alive and spirit.

There is Charles Osgood, originally from Northamptonshire, an English soldier who came to America for war, before becoming obsessed with growing apples. In his search for the perfect apple tree, he finds the one that has grown from the apple eaten by a Puritan militiaman years earlier. Later, a pair of spinster twins grow older on the homestead, before one commits a horrific act. Later still, a merciless slave catcher tracks his quarry; a medium i

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Daniel Mason

American novelist

Not to be confused with Daniel Masson.

For the American composer, see Daniel Gregory Mason.

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

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. 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 US$50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize.^[6] In 2024 he received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for North Woods.

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