Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University 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. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of the same year. In 2012, Chabon published Telegraph Avenue, billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. He followed Telegraph Avenue in November 2016 with his latest novel, Moonglow, a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989. Chabon's work is characterized by complex language, and the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes such as nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials. Chabon (pronounced, in his words, "Shea as in Shea Stadium, Bon as in Bon Jovi", i.e., /ˈʃeɪbɒn/) was born in Washington, D.C., to a Jewish family. His parents are Robert Chabon, a physician and lawyer, and Sharon Chabon, a lawyer. Chabon said he knew he wanted to be a writer when, at the age of ten, he wrote his first short story for a class assignment. When the story received an A, he recalls, "I thought to myself, 'That's it. That's what I want to do. I can do this.' And I never had any second thoughts or doubts." Referring to popular culture, he wrote of being raised "on a hearty diet of crap". His parents divorced when he was 11, and he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Columbia, Maryland. Columbia, where he lived nine months of the year with his mother, was "a progressive planned living community in which racial, economic, and religious diversity were actively fostered." He has written of his mother's marijuana use, recalling her "sometime around 1977 or so, sitting in the front seat of her friend Kathy's car, passing a little metal pipe back and forth before we went in to see a movie." He grew up hearing Yiddish spoken by his mother's parents and siblings. ... Source: Article "Michael Chabon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Popularity : 4.401
  • Known For : Writing
  • Birthday : 1963-05-24
  • Place of Birth : Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Michael Chabon Movies

  • 2003
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    Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked

    Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked

    7.3 2003 HD

    Industry insiders like Stan Lee and Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) reflect on the way their colorful creations reflect society at large. They have spread...

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  • 2014
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    The 50 Year Argument

    The 50 Year Argument

    6.6 2014 HD

    Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of...

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  • 2007
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    Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist

    Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist

    9 2007 HD

    Arguably the most influential person in American comics, Will Eisner, as artist, entrepreneur, innovator, and visual storyteller, enjoyed a career...

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  • 2017
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    The Pulitzer At 100

    The Pulitzer At 100

    6 2017 HD

    The Pulitzer at 100, by Oscar and Emmy winning director Kirk Simon, is a ninety-minute independent documentary released in conjunction with the...

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  • 2018
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    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    7.8 2018 HD

    The extraordinary life story of science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) who, in spite of remaining for many years on the...

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  • 2019
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    The Creative Brain

    The Creative Brain

    7.2 2019 HD

    Neuroscientist David Eagleman taps into the creative process of various inventors, while exploring brain-bending, risk-taking ways to spark creativity

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  • 2001
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    Comic Books & Superheroes

    Comic Books & Superheroes

    7 2001 HD

    Comic book writers and artists discuss the depiction of superheroes in the medium.

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  • 2000
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    Wonder Boys

    Wonder Boys

    6.8 2000 HD

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  • 2012
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    John Carter

    John Carter

    6.323 2012 HD

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  • 2004
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    Spider-Man 2

    Spider-Man 2

    7.287 2004 HD

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  • 2012
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    Moonrise Kingdom

    Moonrise Kingdom

    7.7 2012 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

    4 2008 HD

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  • 2009
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    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    7.8 2009 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

    4 2008 HD

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  • 1970
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    Bob: The Musical

    Bob: The Musical

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Prince of Fashion

    The Prince of Fashion

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Major Matt Mason

    Major Matt Mason

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

    8.018 1989 HD

    Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...

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  • 2019
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    The Ready Room

    The Ready Room

    4 2019 HD

    Welcome to The Ready Room. Every Thursday Wil Wheaton will sit down with members of the Star Trek: Picard cast and crew to discuss the weekly...

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  • 2013
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    Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

    Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

    7.5 2013 HD

    Examines the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last...

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.3 1970 HD

    Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.3 1970 HD

    Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    6.355 1970 HD

    Each episode tells a stand-alone story that serves as an opportunity for deeper storytelling and exploration of key characters and themes that fit...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    6.355 1970 HD

    Each episode tells a stand-alone story that serves as an opportunity for deeper storytelling and exploration of key characters and themes that fit...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    6.355 1970 HD

    Each episode tells a stand-alone story that serves as an opportunity for deeper storytelling and exploration of key characters and themes that fit...

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E10

    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.3 1970 HD

    Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E10

    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.3 1970 HD

    Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.973 1970 HD

    A teenager is charged with lying about her rape allegation, but two determined investigative female detectives discover a far more sinister truth.

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.973 1970 HD

    A teenager is charged with lying about her rape allegation, but two determined investigative female detectives discover a far more sinister truth.

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.973 1970 HD

    A teenager is charged with lying about her rape allegation, but two determined investigative female detectives discover a far more sinister truth.

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E10

    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.3 1970 HD

    Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

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