丹尼尔·梅森

Daniel Mason

生卒: 1976 –
国籍: 美国
外文名: Daniel Mason

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生平与创作

丹尼尔·梅森（英语： Daniel Mason ）是一个美国小说家，他从哈佛大学毕业，获得了生物学学士学位，是班级中成就最优秀的学生；后来他又在加利福尼亚大学旧金山分校的医学院升造。梅森写作第一本小说《钢琴调琴师》（The Piano Tuner）的时候，他还是医学院的一个学生，此书已经发表马上风靡于27个国家，成为畅销书。2007年3月，梅森出版了第二部小说《一个遥远的国度》（A Far Country）。

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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.

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). Mason's second novel, A Far Country, was published in March 2007. North Woods was published in 2023.

His work has been translated into 28 languages. In May 2020, Mason was the recipient of the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. In 2024 he received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for North Woods. North Woods was shortlisted in 2025 for the Dublin Literary Award.

Mason is an Assistant Professor of psychiatry affiliated with Stanford Hospital, and teaches literature at Stanford University. He is married to the novelist Sara Houghteling.