Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988). He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he publ
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Michael Chabon (May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988). He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call 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 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.
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