Daniel Mason is an American novelist and physician. He is the author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country and North Woods.
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From the storyOn the first of June, 1901, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, a doctor and writer of short stories and plays, a famous man who also suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs and intestines, sat at a table, surrounded by other consumptives, before a bottle of mare’s milk and an enameled tin cup.
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Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine December 2024 · Dec 1, 2024
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