M I C H A E L   C H A B O N . - - - - Homepage www.michaelchabon.com - - - - Biography Michael Chabon has become one of the preeminent literary authors of his generation, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. His other books include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, A Model World, and Werewolves in Their Youth. His work has appeared in GQ, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Playboy, Forward, Civilization, Harper's, Vogue, and in a number of anthologies, among them Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards. He is also the author of screenplays, including The Gentleman Host and The Martian Agent, and the introductions to Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor (Little, Brown & Company, 1996). The Summer 2003 issue of The Paris Review published his novella The Final Solution. Wonder Boys was adapted for film and released by Paramount Studios; film versions of several of Chabon's books are in the planning stages, including Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Summerland, and Hotzeplotz. He has written the script for the film version of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which is yet to be completed. Chabon is currently working on a novel set in the Alaskan panhandle, where a territory was opened to European Jewish refugees for settlement during WWII. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, a writer of mysteries, and their four children. - - - - Books Introduction, D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths (New York Review of Books, 2005) The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (Fourth Estate, November 2004) Contributor, My California: Journeys by Great Writers (Angel City Press, June 2004) Editor, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Vintage, 2004) Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1 (Dark Horse Comics, 2003) McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, editor (McSweeney's Issue 10, 2002, and Vintage, 2003) Summerland (Miramax Books, 2002) Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, introduction (Oxford World's Classics; Oxford University Press, 2002) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Random House, 2000) Werewolves in Their Youth (Random House, 1999) Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories (Little, Brown; September 1996) Wonder Boys (Villard, 1995) A Model World, and Other Stories (Morrow, 1991) The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Morrow, 1988) - - - - Films Snow and the Seven (2006, in production) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2005, in production) Spiderman 2, writer (2004) As himself in Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2003) Wonder Boys (2000) - - - - Awards Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2001, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay New York Society Library Award, 2001, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Gold Medal, Commonwealth Club of California, 2001, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 2001, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay American Library Association Notable Books 2001, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, 2001, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Scripter Award, Friends of the University of Southern California Libraries, 2000, Wonder Boys National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, 2000, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Henry Award, 1999, Wonder Boys Publishers Weekly Best Books, 1995, Wonder Boys New York Times Notable Book, 1995, Wonder Boys - - - - Press and Interviews November 2003 The Seattle Times Historical 'What-Ifs' Key to Chabon Novel By Stuart Eskenazi "Michael Chabon stumbled on the stranger-than-fiction basis for his next novel when he read about a proposal to provide a home in Alaska for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler." July 2003 The San Francisco Chronicle A Novel Idea; Finding a literary niche in the Elmwood By Sam Whiting "Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman keep to a rigid schedule at their Berkeley brown-shingle home in Elmwood. He writes at night. She writes by day. The system has worked for nine novels in 10 years, and in passing, four kids in nine." May 2003 SF Weekly (CA) Best Local Writer: Michael Chabon "Most notably, his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay—an epic tale of comic book creators in mid-20th-century New York—was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Given Chabon's industrious body of work, it's hard to believe he has time for anything else, but he frequently gives readings, lectures, and interviews around the Bay Area." 2003 The Believer Underway "I am working on a novel, working title Hotzeplotz. It's set in the Alaskan panhandle, in the present day, in the territory that was opened to the Jewish refugees of Europe, after Congress passed the King-Havenner Bill of 1940, for settlement during WWII." December 2002 The New York Times U.S. Writers Do Cultural Battle Around the Globe By Michael Z. Wise "The Bush administration has recruited prominent American writers to contribute to a State Department anthology and give readings around the globe in a campaign started after 9/11 to use culture to further American diplomatic interests." May 2002 The New York Times Making Books; Novelists Court the Braces Set By Martin Arnold "The question is, if writers of adult books want to be inhabitants of the children's book world, do the writers, of necessity, change prose styles? The answer is, they shouldn't." Oct. 2001 Commonwealthclub.org Good Lit: Michael Chabon in Conversation By Barbara Lane "There were lots of other stories about different rabbis making golems, but for some reason, this is the one that caught the imagination, not just of Jewish listeners over the centuries, but of novelists." May 2001 NPR Audio Reading by Chabon "While Chabon was writing the novel, he did quite a bit of research on the golem—" November 2000 The Onion Interview By Scott Tobias "In his mid-20s, as a creative-writing graduate student at the University of California at Irvine, Michael Chabon submitted as his master's thesis a brisk novel about a confused young man coming to terms with his sexuality." October 2000 Powells.com Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures By Dave Weich "I definitely had a desire to try something bigger, but I've had that desire for a while." October 2000 Book Page Super and Less-Than-Superheroes: A talk with the amazing Chabon By Ellen Kanner "Superhuman strength, x-ray vision, the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound—Superman's got it all, believes author Michael Chabon. But if Chabon were a comic book superhero himself, he thinks he would have been 'one of the also-rans.'" July 1995 Critics' Choice Interview By Dave Edelman "I worked for a little over five years on a book called Fountain City. It was very complicated and ill-conceived and in the end I decided to abandon it." - - - - Author Photo View JPEG

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