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), The Winter Soldier (2018), and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020). His work has been translated into 28 languages, awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Piano Tuner was produced as an opera by Music Theatre Wales, and adapted to the stage by Lifeline Theatre. His short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, 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. An 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.
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Interviews
Print
Guardian UK: A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth Profile: New York Times Magazine LitHub interview: Five books about doctors Narrative Magazine N10 Interview Little, Brown, and Company, Author Q&A Stanford Scope |
Radio
BBC Radio 4: Open Book: A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth RTE Radio 1: Arena: A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth Thacker Mountain Radio NPR: Here & Now Oct 4, 2018 |
Reading, Courses and Syllabi
PSYC82:
THE LITERATURE OF PSYCHOSIS Academic Psychiatry: Literature and the Psychotic Experience Syllabus:
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Selected readings:
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