Paul Nicholas Mason
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Paul Nicholas Mason (born 1958) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and occasional journalist.
Born in London, England, he was raised in Rhodesia, British Columbia and Ontario. He is a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough and Queen's University in Kingston.
Mason has published two plays, The Discipline Committee and Circles of Grace (1995), which have been produced in Canada and Ireland. His play Sister Camille's Kaleidoscopic Cabaret won the Christians in Theatre Arts Full Length Play award in 1996, and premiered in Michigan in 1998. Mason's first novel, Battered Soles, was published by Turnstone Press in 2005. The novel celebrates a fictional pilgrimage from Peterborough, Ontario to the small village of Lakefield, where there is, Mason asserts, a statue of a blue-skinned Jesus in the basement of St. John's Anglican Church.
Mason's second novel, The Red Dress, was published by Turnstone in 2008. The story of the seventeen-year old son of a bitter single mother, it is significantly darker than Battered Soles, but the ending hints at the possibility of its narrator's redemption.
Mason has taught English and Drama at Lakefield College School since 1983.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Discipline Committee Woodstock, Illinois: Dramatic Publishing, 1995.
- Circles of Grace Woodstock, Illinois: Dramatic Publishing, 1995.
- Battered Soles Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2005.
- The Red Dress Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2008.
[edit] External Links
Review of Battered Soles in Prairie Fire: http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/mason_battered_soles.html Review of Battered Soles in Nimble Spirit: http://www.nimblespirit.com/html/battered_soles_review.html Review of Battered Soles in the now defunct Catholic New Times: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_/ai_n15396378
