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Daniel Mason is the author of
The Piano Tuner
and
A Far Country
. He is currently at work on a novel about the early-20
th
-century interest in the art of the mentally ill.
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Was the 18th-century sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt out of his mind?
Daniel Mason
Oct 21, 2010
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