Michael Chabon

American novelist, short story writer, essayist

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Born:May 24, 1963

Age:63

Zodiac Sign:Gemini

Born in:Washington, D.C., United States

Residence:Berkeley, United States

Languages:English

Columnist Writer Essayist Television Producer Novelist Children's Writer Screenwriter Science Fiction Writer Gay Fiction Writer

Links

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Famous For

Notable Work

The Yiddish Policemen's UnionThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Books

The Yiddish Policemen's UnionThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayThe Mysteries of PittsburghGentlemen of the RoadWerewolves in Their Youth

Awards

null (2018)Sophie Brody Medal (2017)Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature (2013)Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel (2009)Hugo Award for Best Novel (2008)

Michael Chabon

American novelist, short story writer, essayist

Biography

Michael Chabon ( SHAY-bon; born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 24. He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001; John Leonard described it as Chabon's magnum opus. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of the same year. In 2012, Chabon published Telegraph Avenue, billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch", concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. He followed Telegraph Avenue in November 2016 with his latest novel, Moonglow, a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989. Chabon's work is characterized by complex language, and the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes such as nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials.

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Quotes

“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.”

— The Recipe for Life, The Washington Book World (2000)

“Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”

— Maps and Legends, Architectural Digest (April 2001)

“The presence of evil, once scented, tends to bring out all that is most irrational and uncontrollable in the public imagination. It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria.”

— The God of Dark Laughter, The New Yorker (April 9, 2001)

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Photos

Michael Chabon speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.

Dominic Patten, Kirsten Beyer, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, Evan Evagora, Brent Spiner and Jeri Ryan speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Trek: Picard", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

Dominic Patten, Kirsten Beyer, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, Evan Evagora, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Del Arco speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Trek: Picard", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

Kirsten Beyer, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, Evan Evagora, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Del Arco speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Trek: Picard", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

Michael Chabon speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Star Trek: Picard", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.