Cool tidbits about Chuck Palahniuk:
When they were very young, Chuck's parents took he and his sister to see the graves of his grandparents (maternal, I'm assuming) who (whom?) they had never met. When they got there, the kids noticed that the grandparents' names were "Paula" and "Nick". The kids laughed their asses off all the way home. And that's how he pronounces his name: "Paula-Nick".
Chuck only started writing in his mid-thirties. In fact, he almost didn't start at all when his first novel Invisible Monsters got rejected due to its content. Chuck's anger over this prompted him to write Fight Club as a big "F--- You!" to the publishers. Instead of being offended, however, they published it.
Chuck went through a stage in his life where he got into many fist fights. He even got beaten up at a camp site once and had black and blue marks all over his face for around 3 months.
Chuck used to be a diesel mechanic for Freightliner and wrote Fight Club as part of a "writing group" he attends with friends. It was his mentor Tom Spanbauer who prompted him to use the method of "minimalism" derived from Gordon Lisch. ~ From The Cult of Chuck Palahniuk
Dates:
(1961-)
Nationality:
American
Genre(s):
Novels
Recent Work:
Diary
