Michael Chabon

b. 1963

3 standalone books

Michael Chabon is an American author known for his novels, short stories, and essays. His first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was published in 1988 when he was 25. He later wrote Wonder Boys, published in 1995, and two collections of short stories. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which was called his magnum opus by John Leonard in a 2007 review. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won multiple awards, including the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula, and Ignotus. That same year, his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road was published in book form. In 2012, he released Telegraph Avenue, described as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," which explores the lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in 2004.

Born

1963