Michael Paul Mason

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Michael Paul Mason (born May 29, 1971, in Tulsa, Oklahoma), sometimes credited as Michael Mason, is an American writer, author, editor, and journalist.

Mason's first book of non-fiction, Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath, chronicles the years he spent as a brain-injury case manager and tells the stories of twelve individuals who survived brain injury.^[1]

While a contributing editor for Discover magazine, Mason wrote the article, "Dead Men Walking", which triggered a national debate about the treatment of brain-injured veterans of the Iraq War.^[2] As an independent radio producer, Mason has created works that have appeared on several public radio stations.

Mason is the founding editor of This Land Press, a publication based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

• Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

• "Dead Men Walking", Discover (2007)
• "Iraq's Medical Meltdown", Discover (2007)
• "The 9/11 Cover-Up", Discover (2007)
• "How to Teach Science to the Pope", Discover (2008)
• "Keeping Our Heads" (op-ed), The New York Times (2009)
• "Narrative Lost and Found", This Land Press (2010)
• "The Future of Writing is in My Jacket", The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, Soft Skull Press (2011)\

• "Inside the Glore," (2009)
• "The Guardian of the Murder House," (2009)
• "Goodbye Tulsa" (weekly series)

• This Land Press