Michael Chabon

Writing

Born: 1963-05-24
From: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.5

Biography

Michael Chabon (/ˈʃeɪbɒn/ 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. Source: Article "Michael Chabon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Awards & Nominations10 won · 9 nominated

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Sophie Brody Medal

Moonglow

2017
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Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature

2013
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Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2009
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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2008
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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2008
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Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2008
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Helmerich Award

2008
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2008
🏆 Won

Sidewise Award for Alternate History

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2007
Nominated

BSFA Award for Best Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2007
Nominated

Hammett Prize

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2007
Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Spider-Man 2

2005
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Anthology

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

2004
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Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2004
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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Summerland

2003
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book

Summerland

2003
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Locus Award for Best Short Story

The God of Dark Laughter

2002
🏆 Won

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2001
Nominated

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2001