Michael chabon biography
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Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born May 24, ) is an American author. His first novel was called The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and published in Chabon was 25 years old. The book made him famous among writers. He has also written genre fiction. Chabon published The fantastisk Adventures of Kavalier & Clay in It won the pris Prize for Fiction in
Biography
[change | change source]Early years
[change | change source]Michael Chabon was born in Washington, DC to Robert Chabon, a physician and lawyer, and Sharon Chabon, a lawyer. He knew he wanted to be a writer when he was a child. [1] He studied at Carnegie Mellon University for a year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree there in Then Chabon went to graduate school at the University of California, Irvine and earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.
Personal life
[change | change source]In , Chabon married the poet Lollie Groth. They divorced inom
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Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon was born in , in Washington, D.C. and raised mostly in Columbia, a planned city with utopian aspirations in the Maryland tobacco country. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, and has spent most of the past two decades in California, with brief sojourns in Washington State, Florida, and New York State. Since , he has been living with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a writer, and their children, in Berkeley.
Michael Chabon’s first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was originally written for his master’s thesis at U.C. Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller. Chabon’s second novel, Wonder Boys, was also a bestseller, and was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. Michael Chabon believes that three things are required for success as a novelist: talent, luck, and discipline. As he says, “Dis
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Michael Chabon was born in Washington, DC, on May 24, His father, Robert, is a physician, lawyer, and hospital administrator and his mother, Sharon, is a retired lawyer.
In , Chabon won a short-story contest with Mademoiselle, and in that same year, he wrote his master's thesis, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (). His adviser was so astonished that he sent the manuscript to a literary agent at the Virginia Barber Agency in New York City. The agent sold the book to William Morrow Publishers for $, at a private auction—one of the highest figures ever paid for a first novel by a young unknown fiction author.
Michael Chabon gained instant fame and success with Mysteries of Pittsburgh. He became known in the highly competitive publishing world of New York. This coming-of-age book became a commercial bestseller and was praised by literary and academic critics. Mysteries of Pittsburgh was made into a film adaption in and was released in
The appealing aspect of The Mysteries of Pit