Michael Chabon

Person · Open Library

Born

24 May 1963

Works

93

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Writing · Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Michael Chabon (/ˈʃeɪbɒn/ SHAY-bon; born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.…

Known for

• The Creative Brain — Self2019
• The Ready Room — Self2019
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin — Self - Writer2018
• The Pulitzer At 100 — Self - Novelist2017
• The 50 Year Argument — Himself2014
• Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle — Self2013
• Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist2007
• Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked — Self2003
• Comic Books & Superheroes — Self2001
• The Simpsons — Michael Chabon (voice)1989

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1963

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

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Total plays

13,710

Michael Chabon (pron.: /ˈʃeɪbɒn/ SHAY-bon; born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation," according to The Virginia Quarterly Review. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay <a href="https://www.last

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 85,326x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,762x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,872x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,528x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,975x

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Quotes

• “Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.”
• “Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”
• “The presence of evil, once scented, tends to bring out all that is most irrational and uncontrollable in the public imagination. It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria.”
• “When I first set my sights on becoming a writer at age eleven or so, I wanted to be a fantasy and science fiction writer. That was my preferred reading material and that's what I thought I was going to write. That's always been there. You can even see little hints of it in Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonderboys.”
• “I think it was when I got to the butterflies -- in that brief, beautiful image comprising life, death and technology -- that the hair on the back of my neck began to stand on end. All at once, the pleasure I took in reading was altered irrevocably. Before then I had never noticed, somehow, that stories were made not of ideas or exciting twists of plot but of language. And not merely of pretty words and neat turns of phrase, but of systems of imagery, strategies of metaphor.”
• “It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1963-05-24 ) May 24, 1963 (age 63) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.

Pen name

Leon Chaim Bach, Malachi B. Cohen, August Van Zorn

Occupation

Novelist screenwriter columnist short story writer

Education

Carnegie Mellon University , University of Pittsburgh ( BA ), University of California, Irvine ( MFA )

Period

1987–present

Notable works

Wonder Boys (1995), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007), Telegraph Avenue (2012), Moonglow: A Novel (2016)

Notable awards

1999 O. Henry Award , 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel , 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel , 2008 Sidewise Award for Alternate History

Spouse

Lollie Groth ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1987 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1991 ) ​ Ayelet Waldman ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1993 ) ​

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Official website

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Official website

www.michaelchabon.com

Image

Michael Chabon by Gage Skidmore.jpg

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