Author
Michael Chabon
Birth Date
May 24, 1963
(63 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for his imaginative storytelling and blend of literary and genre fiction. He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Columbia, Maryland. Chabon studied at University of Pittsburgh and later at the University of California, Irvine, where he developed his first novel.
He gained early recognition with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), but achieved major acclaim with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel explores the lives of two Jewish cousins who create comic books during World War II, blending history with themes of art, identity, and escape.
Chabon’s other works include Wonder Boys (1995), The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), and Telegraph Avenue (2012). His writing is known for its rich language, playful imagination, and ability to cross genres, from historical fiction to speculative storytelling. He is widely regarded as a major figure in contemporary American literature.
He gained early recognition with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), but achieved major acclaim with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel explores the lives of two Jewish cousins who create comic books during World War II, blending history with themes of art, identity, and escape.
Chabon’s other works include Wonder Boys (1995), The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), and Telegraph Avenue (2012). His writing is known for its rich language, playful imagination, and ability to cross genres, from historical fiction to speculative storytelling. He is widely regarded as a major figure in contemporary American literature.
Books
Pops 2019
For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe...
Bookends 2019
In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature—age-old classics as well as his own—that presents a unique look into his literary origins and...
Moonglow 2017
Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential...
Summerland 2016
Ethan Feld is having a terrible summer: his father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has quickly established himself as the least gifted baseball player the island has ever seen....
Telegraph Avenue 2014
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in...
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity. Chabon...
Manhood for Amateurs 2010
A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces: MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In...
Maps and Legends 2009
In this lively collection of sixteen critical and personal essays, the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay champions the cause of westerns, horror, and all the stories, comics, and...
Wonder Boys 2008
A modern classic, now in a welcome new edition, Wonder Boys firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction. At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and...
In an alternate present where a temporary Jewish settlement was established in Alaska after World War II, the district of Sitka has become a vibrant, chaotic refuge—now on the brink of being...
The Final Solution 2005
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than his fellow man. Into his...
A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to...