Michael Chabon, born in Washington D.C. in 1963 to a doctor and a lawyer, grew up knowing he wanted to write from the age of 10. He spent his teenage years in Pittsburgh and attended Carnegie Mellon University before getting his B.A. at the University of Pittsburgh. At the University of California, Irvine he wrote his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), as his master's thesis. The novel became a bestseller.
Chabon then spent five years working on a second novel that he eventually abandoned before writing Wonder Boys (1995), which was also very successful. He followed with a collection of short stories, Werewolves in their Youth, before publishing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay in 2000.
Michael Chabon's recent work includes The Final Solution, a mystery novella paying homage to Arthur Conan Doyle about an aging British detective during the end of World War II (clearly Sherlock Holmes), Gentlemen of the Road, a "swords and horses tale" along the silk road, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, a detective story set in an alternate history in which European Jews moved to Alaska in the middle of the twentieth century, and Maps and Legends, a collection of essays exploring Chabon's love of genre fiction.
Michael Chabon resides with his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman, and four children in Berkeley, California.
Reviews of Michael Chabon's Books:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayThe Final Solution
Gentlemen of the Road
Maps and Legends
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