Paul Nicholas Mason

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 a seventeen-year old young man growing up poor and confused in rural Ontario, it is significantly darker than "Battered Soles," but the ending is hopeful.Mason's work is characterized by what one reviewer calls its "fragile optimism" (CNT).

Mason has taught English and Drama at Lakefield College School since 1983.

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.

External links

Review of "Battered Soles" in "Prairie Fire": http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/mason_battered_soles.htmlReview of "Battered Soles" in "Nimble Spirit": http://www.nimblespirit.com/html/battered_soles_review.htmlReview of "Battered Soles" in the now defunct "Catholic New Times": http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_/ai_n15396378