Daniel Mason

Daniel Mason is an American novelist and physician whose literary fiction draws on history, science, and medicine to create works of extraordinary scope and beauty. He trained as a psychiatrist and is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Mason's novels include The Piano Tuner (a bestselling debut set in colonial Burma), A Far Country (about migration and displacement in South America), The Winter Soldier (set during the First World War), and North Woods (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), which tells the story of a single house in the forests of New England across centuries, following the successive inhabitants from colonial times to the present. His fiction combines historical sweep with intimate human stories, medical knowledge with lyrical prose. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers literary fiction that spans centuries and disciplines — novels where history, science, and the human heart converge in stories of remarkable beauty and intelligence.