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Daniel
Mason

Daniel Mason is the 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, adapted for the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. His short stories and essays have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.

Daniel Mason is the 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, adapted for the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. His short stories and essays have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.

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