Image:  Surgical team, Field Hospital, Ostrozec, September, 1915 (Image courtesy Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek) ​
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of The Piano Tuner (2002), A Far Country (2007), and The Winter Soldier ​(2018).  His work has been translated into 28 languages and adapted for opera and theater.  A Far Country was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Northern California Book Award.  His short stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope: All Story and Lapham’s Quarterly; in 2014 he was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, his research and teaching interests include the subjective experience of mental illness and the influence of literature, history, and culture on the practice of medicine.
​Interviews

Profile: New York Times Magazine
Guardian UK:  From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war
LitHub interview:  Five books about doctors
Narrative Magazine N10 Interview
​Little, Brown, and Company, Author Q&A 
​Stanford Scope
​NPR: Here & Now
​Oct 4, 2018
Teaching
Courses​
​HUMBIO 162L/ANTHRO 82P:  The Literature of Psychosis
HUMBIO 146/ANTHRO 186:  Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness
Selected Course Texts