Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon ˈʃeɪbɒn SHAYbon born May 24 1963 is an American novelist screenwriter columnist and short story writer Born in Washington DC 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 Chabons first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh 1988 was published when he was 24 He followed it with Wonder Boys 1995 and two shortstory collections In 2000 he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 John Leonard described it as Chabons magnum opus His novel The Yiddish Policemens 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 twentyfirst 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 Chabons mothers California home in 1989 Chabons 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 plotdriven fiction and along with novels has published screenplays childrens books comics and newspaper serials Source Article Michael Chabon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30