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Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon 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.
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culture · American author and Pulitzer Prize winner (born 1963) · writer · essayist · screenwriter · novelist · columnist · science fiction writer · children's writer · television producer · gay fiction writer · also Michael Chabon, Leon Chaim Bach, Malachi B. Cohen, August Van Zorn, Chabon
Born 24 May 1963 · Q313466
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2026· 10 entries
“instead of worrying so much about genre and entertainment, I”
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“what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?”
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“s alarmed by the fenced-in, safety-helmeted culture around American childhood:”
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“are now actively employed to snare children”
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“only gotten worse. Getting people to be afraid not just of what will befall your children if you let them out to play, but of all kinds of things, including foreigners and terrorists, is immensely profitable.”
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“There have been plenty of self-destructive rebel-angel novelists over the years, but writing is about getting your work done and getting your work done every day. If you want to write novels, they take a long time, and they”
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“the possibility and impossibility of creating shared community spaces that attempt to transcend the limits imposed on us by our backgrounds, heritage and history.”
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“s criticism to heart, explaining,”
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Bar Harbor Story | Carrie Jones | Substack: New York Times Best-selling Author Ayelet Waldman Discusses A Perfect Hand with husband Michael Chabon
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Writer Michael Chabon Shares Personal Playlist To Accompany Oprah’s Book Club Pick ‘Some Bright Nowhere'
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Chabon and Waldman's son Abraham, then a 22-year-old student at New York University, was arrested for "rape and strangulation"; the first (but not the second) charge has now been dropped
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2023· 2 entries
Forbes: Michael Chabon, Other Literary Giants Sue OpenAI Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
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New York Post: Authors Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, others sue ChatGPT maker for copyright infringement
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2021· 1 entry
Yahoo: Michael Chabon Apologizes for Staying Silent on Scott Rudin’s Abuse
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2020· 2 entries
Publishers Weekly: Books by Michael Chabon and Complete Book Reviews
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With Chabon referring to himself as a lifelong Star Trek fan
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Pops by Michael Chabon review – what parenthood asks of a man
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The Guardian: Michael Chabon: ‘Parent properly and you’re doing yourself out of a job’
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2017· 11 entries
The Guardian: Michael Chabon webchat – your questions answered on sequels and scrambled eggs
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The Guardian: August's reading group: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
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The Guardian: Michael Chabon: ‘I have a socialist approach to my regrets’
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Won Sophie Brody Medal for Moonglow (2017).
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The Guardian: Michael Chabon on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – books podcast
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The Guardian: Moonglow by Michael Chabon review – a novel posing as a family memoir
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The Guardian: Michael Chabon: ‘Trump is like a random impulse generator’
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The Guardian: Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon nominated for book critics award
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The Guardian: Moonglow by Michael Chabon review – much more than a memoir
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He's like a random impulse generator." In a 2017 radio interview, Chabon spoke of Trump: "Every morning I wake up and in the seconds before I turn my phone on to see what the latest news is, I have this boundless sense of optimism and hope that this is the day that he's going to have a massive stroke, and, you know, be carted out of the White House on a gurney."
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“I really have no idea what to expect. He”
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2016· 1 entry
“...a long overdue follow-up—but not a sequel—to Summerland, my book for a somewhat younger readership. It”
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2014· 1 entry
Chabon was involved in writing lyrics for Mark Ronson's album Uptown Special
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
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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2010· 2 entries
"I just copied the writers whose voices I was responding to, and I think that's probably the best way to learn
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Having written an op-ed piece for the New York Times in June 2010 in which he noted the role of exceptionalism in Jewish identity, in relation to the "blockheadedness" of Israel's "botching" of the Gaza flotilla raid – w
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel for The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2009).
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2008).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2008).
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Awarded Helmerich Award (2008).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2008).
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Chabon received the Peggy V
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2007· 5 entries
Awarded Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007).
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Entertainment Weekly declared the couple "a famous—and famously in love—writing pair, like Nick and Nora Charles with word processors and not so much booze
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Sidewise Award for Alternate History (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
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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
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Ruth Franklin said, "Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it
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2005· 3 entries
Chabon remarked on the autobiographical events that helped inspire his first novel: "I had slept with one man whom I loved, and learned to love another man so much that it would never have occurred to me to want to sleep
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Chabon argued against the idea that genre fiction and entertaining fiction should not appeal to "the real writer", saying that the common perception is that "Entertainment
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“I had slept with one man whom I loved, and learned to love another man so much that it would never have occurred to me to want to sleep with him.”
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2004· 2 entries
“s Spider-Man 2, about a third of which was used in the final film. Soon after Spider-Man 2 was released, director Sam Raimi mentioned that he hoped to hire Chabon to work on the film”
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Chabon established the August Van Zorn Prize, "awarded to the short story that most faithfully and disturbingly embodies the tradition of the weird short story as practiced by Edgar Allan Poe and his literary descendants
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature for Summerland (2003).
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“When I first set my sights on becoming a writer at age eleven or so, I wanted to be a fantasy and science fiction writer. That was my preferred reading material and that's what I thought I was going to write. That's always been there. You can even see little hints of it in Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonderboys.”
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2002· 2 entries
Chabon published Summerland, a fantasy novel written for younger readers that received mixed reviews but sold extremely well, and won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
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Five years before the book would be published
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2001).
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Chabon reflected on the success of his first novel, noting that while "the upside was that I was published and I got a readership," the downside was the emotional impact: "this stuff started happening and I was still lik
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And 2002 working on the novel's film adaptation, the project has been mired in pre-production for years
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2000· 3 entries
Published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001; John Leonard described it as Chabon's magnum opus
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Published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, an epic historical novel that charts 16 years in the lives of Sammy Clay and Joe Kavalier, two Jewish cousins who create a wildly popular series of comic books in t
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To critical acclaim and financial failure
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1999· 2 entries
Is a social novel set on the borders between Oakland and Berkeley in the summer of 2004 that sees a "large cast of characters grapple with infidelity, fatherhood, crooked politicians, racism, nostalgia and buried secrets
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Published his second collection of short stories, Werewolves in Their Youth, which included his first published foray into genre fiction, the grim horror story "In the Black Mill"
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1994· 1 entry
Chabon pitched a screenplay entitled The Gentleman Host to producer Scott Rudin, a romantic comedy "about old Jewish folks on a third-rate cruise ship out of Miami
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1991· 1 entry
Published A Model World, a collection of short stories, many of which were previously published in The New Yorker
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1988· 1 entry
And was a bestseller, instantly catapulting Chabon to literary celebrity
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1987· 1 entry
Chabon married the poet Lollie Groth
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-05-24.
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1948· 1 entry
And European Jews settled in Alaska, the novel was released on May 1, 2007, to enthusiastic reviews, and spent six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list
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