Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon

American author

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Michael Chabon

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Born:: May 24, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S. (age 60)

Awards And Honors:: Hugo Award (2008); Pulitzer Prize (2001)

Notable Works:: “Moonglow”; “Telegraph Avenue”; “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”; “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”; “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”; “Wonder Boys”

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Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S.) American novelist and essayist known for his elegant deployment of figurative language and adventurous experiments with genre conceits. His narratives were frequently suffused with references to world mythology and to his own Jewish heritage. Chabon was the elder of two children. His father, who was a pediatrician and hospital administrator, and mother, who became a lawyer following the couple’s 1975 divorce, moved the family to the ostensibly utopian planned community of Columbia, Maryland, in 1969. Though Columbia later became the second largest city in Maryland, the town had been occupied for ...(100 of 678 words)

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