メイソン・カリー（Mason Currey）は、アメリカの著述家・編集者。ペンシルベニア州ホーンズデール生まれ。ノースカロライナ大学アッシュビル校卒業。デザイン誌『Metropolis』『Print』などで編集に携わり、『ニューヨーカー』『ニューヨーク・タイムズ』などに寄稿してきた。作家や芸術家が日々どのように創作の時間を確保し、仕事を続けてきたかを調べ、個人ブログから発展した著書を刊行。小説家、画家、作曲家、哲学者ら161人の生活習慣を集めた『天才たちの日課 クリエイティブな人々の必ずしもクリエイティブでない日々』（原題 “Daily Rituals: How Artists Work”）では、起床時間や散歩、仕事場、コーヒーなどの嗜好品を通じて、創作を支える日常を描く。女性143人に焦点を当てた『天才たちの日課 女性編 自由な彼女たちの必ずしも自由でない日常』（原題 “Daily Rituals: Women at Work”）では、家事や育児、経済的な制約、偏見に向き合いながら、自分の場所と時間を守る工夫を紹介。創造性をめぐる問いを、机に向かう時刻や生活費、家族との関係といった具体的な条件から考察している。
Mason Currey is an American writer and editor born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, he has held editorial positions at Metropolis, Print and Core77, and contributed to publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times. His work examines how writers and artists organize their lives to make room for creative work. Growing out of a personal blog, “Daily Rituals: How Artists Work” brings together brief portraits of the working habits of 161 novelists, painters, composers, philosophers and other creative figures. Through details such as waking hours, walks, workspaces and coffee consumption, the book explores the practical arrangements behind artistic and intellectual production. Focusing on 143 women, “Daily Rituals: Women at Work” broadens that inquiry to consider how creative people have secured time and space amid domestic responsibilities, financial pressures and discrimination. Its subjects include Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama and Susan Sontag. Currey uses these individual accounts to examine the relationship between creative ambitions and the circumstances of everyday life. He also writes Subtle Maneuvers, a newsletter on the creative process, continuing his exploration of the habits, compromises and material conditions that help people sustain their work.
