Michael Chabon
Novelist, Author
1963 –
Who is Michael Chabon?
Michael Chabon is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation," according to The Virginia Quarterly Review.
Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was published when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys, and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a critically acclaimed novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 to enthusiastic reviews and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. Chabon's most recent novel, Telegraph Avenue, published in 2012 and billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch", concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004.
His work is characterized by complex language, the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes, including 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, Chabon has written in an increasingly diverse series of styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, he has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials.
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- Born
- May 24, 1963
Washington, D.C. - Also known as
- Leon Chaim Bach
- Malachi B. Cohen
- August Van Zorn
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ayelet Waldman
(1993 - ) - Lollie Groth
(1987 - 1991)
- Ayelet Waldman
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of California, Irvine
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Lived in
- Berkeley
- Columbia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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