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), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into 28 languages, awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Piano Tuner was produced as an opera by Music Theatre Wales for the Royal Opera House in London, and adapted to the stage by Lifeline Theatre in Chicago. His short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All Story, Zyzzyva, Narrative, and Lapham’s Quarterly, and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry Prize. 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.
Media contact: Carrie Neill, Penguin Random House, cneill@penguinrandomhouse.com
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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