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	Michael Chabon ★ Steven Barclay Agency
		Michael Chabon’s first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was originally written for his master’s thesis at UC Irvine and became a national bestseller; a feature film adaptation (with a script by Chabon) is currently filming in Pittsburgh.
		Michael Chabon’s philosophy behind his success as a novelist is based on three requirements: talent, luck, and discipline.
		Chabon is at work on a novel entitled The Yiddish Policemen's Union, a thriller set in an imaginary world inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s short-lived plan during WWII to create a Jewish homeland in Alaska, rather than the Middle East.
	www.barclayagency.com /chabon.html (478 words)

	Michael Chabon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author best known for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
		Chabon currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Ayelet Waldman, who is also an author, and their four children.
		Chabon is a big fan of the Golden Age Mister Terrific and contributed a story about Mister Terrific to the JSA "All Stars" mini-series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Chabon (970 words)

	The lost adventure of childhood - Salon
		Michael Chabon, author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," talks about his new kids book, "Summerland," and the freedom he fears is vanishing from children's lives.
		Michael Chabon's new novel, "Summerland," is meant for kids, but it's just as rangy, eccentric, dreamy and funky as his books for adults.
		Chabon, an avid reader in his own childhood of classic children's fantasy series by such authors as Susan Cooper and C.S. Lewis, decided he wanted to try his hand at the genre and bring to it a set of American mythic motifs.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2002/10/22/chabon/index.html (1285 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Michael Chabon
		Chabon: I probably should just say "Thank you," take the compliment, and leave it at that, but the truth is that it was hard-going.
		Chabon: Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two.
		Chabon: That makes Joe pretty unusual among comic book artists of his time, though there were a couple, the foremost among them being Will Eisner, a brilliant artist and a very talented storyteller.
	www.powells.com /authors/chabon.html (3488 words)

	ASU News > Comic book author Michael Chabon to read at Orpheum
		Michael Chabon, author of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7, at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 W. Adams St., Phoenix.
		Chabon, who also is a screenwriter, brought his love for comic books into his third novel, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” which is set at the dawn of World War II, when comic books were ascending in popularity.
		Chabon once told an interviewer: “I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about 6 to 15.
	www.asu.edu /news/stories/200610/20061005_chabon.htm (320 words)

	The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay - Biography
		Michael Chabon (pronounced, as he says, "Shea as in Stadium, Bon as in Jovi") was born May 24, 1963 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the suburbs of Columbia, Maryland.
		Chabon lived with his mother, Sharon, while she attended law school and established a career as a lawyer.
		Chabon later explained why he wrote the book: "I had just been through, in the years preceding my decampment for the West, a pair of summers that had rattled my nerves and rocked my soul and shook my sense of self—but in a good way.
	www.sugarbombs.com /kavalier/mcbio.html (2700 words)

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		This is a smear and an unethical one.
		It may be unconscious, and Chabon, self-proclaimed accomplished mimic and showman, may merely be taking dictation from the mental environment, but it is a politics for all that.
		It is an obvious attempt to coopt the Holocaust into Michael Chabon’s personal quest for American Jewish identity and to make it seem as though the only answer to the horror of genocide is increased isolationism and a politics of racial purity and proper breeding that the Nazis would admire.
	www.nplusonemag.com /chabon.html (1923 words)

	BookPage Interview October 2000: Michael Chabon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And that's the key to Chabon, who was all of 24 when he dazzled the literary world with his 1988 debut novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
		Since his Sherlock Holmes days, Chabon has become master of the short story and is author of two collections A Model World and Other Stories and Werewolves in Their Youth.
		Chabon has come far from being the kid who wrote The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and that's okay with him.
	www.bookpage.com /0010bp/michael_chabon.html (995 words)

	Summerland By Michael Chabon
		Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon's new novel is a departure for him in many ways.
		Chabon's love of baseball and his admiration for some of its old-time players, a secondary theme that surfaces occasionally in previous works, forms the heart of the thematic lineup.
		That Chabon can spin a coherent allegory from such disparate material is testament to his powers as a writer.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20021229chabon1229fnp5.asp (927 words)

	The Writer's Voice presents Michael Chabon
		Michael Chabon was born in 1963, in Washington, D.C. and was raised mostly in Columbia, an attempted utopia in the Maryland suburbs.
		Michael has spent most of the past fifteen years in California, with brief sojourns in Washington State, Florida, and New York State.
		Michael has lectured widely on topics including the art and craft of writing, the tradition of Jewish fiction, children’s literature, and Vladimir Nabokov, to name a few.
	www.southwestern.edu /library/writers-voice/chabon.html (1141 words)

	Event Archive: Michael Chabon - Commonwealth Club
		Michael Chabon: The golem is a character out of Jewish folklore, a myth that dates back thousands of years, before the time of Christ.
		Chabon: That was one of my main questions when I started writing, one of the things that I thought I might answer for myself.
		Chabon: I was skeptical that anybody would be interested in hearing about these guys and this world at all.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/01/01-10chabon-speech.html (3380 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Michael Chabon
		Darling of the Lit World: Michael Chabon's new novel is kid stuff, but that's unlikely to deter any of his fans.
		Fantasy always plays a major role in Chabon's work, whether he's writing about a confused kid with an identity crisis in Werewolves in Their Youth or a pair of comic-book creators trying to alter the cruel course of history in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
		Chabon draws on Norse mythology, Native American legends, Mexican ghost stories, the folklore of the Wild West, and the strange history of baseball itself.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.19.02/chabon-0238.html (580 words)

	Michael Chabon (Bold Type Magazine)
		In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon tells the story of two ambitious and singular young men, one a New York native, the other his cousin, a refugee from Prague, navigating a world changed indefinitely by the events of the Second World War.
		The honor of the latter is called into question in a 1954 congressional hearing that equates the medium with juvenile delinquency and advocacy of a homosexual lifestyle, as evidenced by the oft-included male sidekick to the comic book superhero.
		Using narrative, flashbacks, historical detail and shifting perspectives, Chabon whisks his reader on a journey that spans some 15 years and several corners of the globe, and culminates unforgettably atop the Empire State Building.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1000/chabon (407 words)

	Michael Chabon \| The A.V. Club
		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.
		Chabon spent much of the early '90s working on a highly ambitious opus called Fountain City, about an architect building a perfect baseball park in Florida, but he scrapped the project after failing to give shape to the thousands of pages he had written.
		Michael Chabon: I was introduced to them pretty early, right around the age of six or so, by my father, who had himself been a devoted reader of comics when he was a child.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/24253 (4346 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Michael Chabon pulls off a sleight of hand - September 22, 2000
		Chabon, the author of "Wonder Boys," begins his fifth book, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" (Random House), in 1939, at the height of the golden age of comic books, when newly minted superheroes such as Superman, Batman and Captain America were fighting evil and reaping millions for their publishers.
		Between that night and the spectacle 15 years later of the Kefauver investigation -- which also sought to expose the homoerotic elements of the superhero men in tights -- the story of Kavalier and Clay and their greatest creation is one of repeated escapes, imprisonment, concealment and sleight of hand.
		Just how powerfully comic books influenced Michael Chabon becomes evident at the end of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay." It was the comic books of Jack Kirby -- creator of Captain America and the Fantastic Four, among many others -- that Chabon carried from place to place in that sealed box.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/09/22/michael.chabon (1257 words)

	Powell's Books - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
		Chabon could never quite pull the story together and eventually abandoned the project in favor of a story about a failed academic having problems finding the ending for a too-ambitious second novel.
		Chabon writes "like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader," wrote Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times about Wonder Boys – and here he has created, in Joe Kavalier, a hero for the century.
		Michael Chabon is the bestselling author of Werewolves In Their Youth, Wonder Boys, A Model World, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0312282990-0 (1245 words)

	Failbetter.com \| Michael Chabon
		In the eyes of many, Michael Chabon is one of these authors.
		Michael Chabon: My work in the movie (and television) business has, for the last eight or nine years, been steady, remunerative, and, with one exception, fruitless.
		Michael Chabon: I don't miss it - the experience of being the NBT - so much as wish that I had, at the time, enjoyed it more.
	www.failbetter.com /01/Chabon.htm (1779 words)

	Amazon.com: Summerland: Books: Michael Chabon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chabon unspools an elaborate yarn in a style that frequently crackles with color and surprise.
		I have been a fan of Michael Chabon for a few years now and was very happy to see he was writing a book for a juvenile audience.
		Chabon's voicing of the dialogue provides further texture to the story that would be absent in print alone.
	www.amazon.com /Summerland-Michael-Chabon/dp/0786808772 (1983 words)

	Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
		The foregoing inelegant synopsis highlights the fact that Michael Chabon is not afraid of rude and outsized slapstick comedy.
		Chabon doesn’t overplay this thematic metaphor, yet as Grady Tripp extravagantly renders for us the sights and smells of Sara’s greenhouse, we can sense the salvation that Sara represents for him.
		Several characters in Chabon’s novel share a fascination with a mythical author named August Van Zorn, a writer of pulp horror stories who eventually put a bullet through his head when the market for his lurid stories began to dry up.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/WonderBoys.htm (1117 words)

	Wonder Boys Unofficial Site
		Surname is pronounced "shay- bahn"; born in 1963, in Washington, DC; son of a Robert (a physician, lawyer and hospital manager) and Sharon (a lawyer) Chabon; married Lollie Groth (a poet; divorced, 1991); married Ayelet Waldman (a lawyer), 1993; children (second marriage): Sophie.
		It was, Chabon told Los Angeles Times contributor Erik Himmelsbach, "sort of a map of my brain," and in it, he attempted to express his love for Paris, architecture, baseball, Florida, and more.
		Chabon confided to Lisa See in Publishers Weekly that until his wife read the manuscript of Wonder Boys and he heard her laughing as she turned the pages, he had no idea that he was writing a comic novel.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Screen/2199/mc.html (1143 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Books: Michael Chabon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		First-novelist Chabon, with "distinctive vision" and "an elegiac, graceful style," spins a story about alienated youth that, while serving up some familiar details of sex, alcohol and drugs, "fully engages the reader in the lives of an appealing cast of characters," said PW.
		Chabon has an uncanny way of putting you in the novel and getting you to recognize the vivid characters in your own life.
		Chabon almost seems like a child who is just discovering for the first time some immense power.
	www.amazon.com /Mysteries-Pittsburgh-Michael-Chabon/dp/0060972122 (2626 words)

	Michael Chabon Biography \| Authors and Artist for Young Adults
		With just three novels and two short story collections to his name, Michael Chabon has become one of the preeminent literary authors of his generation.
		Such "buzz" has made life easier at the Chabon household, where his wife, also a writer of mysteries, and he share parenting duties of their children.
		The versatile Chabon has, in addition to his novels, penned two short story collections, A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth, as well as television pilots, screenplay.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/michael-chabon-aya (208 words)

	Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist - PopMatters Comic Book Review
		Author Michael Chabon arguably has been at the forefront of this cultural reappraisal in the mainstream, as evidenced by his well-crafted 2000 book, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which examined the deeply complex relationship between two fictitious comic book authors who "produced" revolutionary comics more than a half century ago.
		Not only was Chabon's ambitious, clever and entertaining book awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, other big-wig authors have since started to jump on the pulp-comics-are-high-art bandwagon in the intervening years.
		While Chabon only is credited for the first story in volume one, a rather hokey "origin" story about the Escapist's beginnings, he is, as the book credits list him, the series' "house manager".
	www.popmatters.com /comics/amazing-adventures-escapist.shtml (1421 words)

	Michael Chabon Interview by David Louis Edelman
		Chabon: I went to the MFA program at UC Irvine in order to find the time and the financial and moral support I thought I was going to need to start my career as a writer.
		Chabon: Yes, as a matter of fact, there is an excellent audio version of WB out from Brilliance Audio.
		Chabon: They help first and foremost in that they give a new writer time, encouragement, and financial support when it's most crucial...and the company of other new writers is extremely valuable and helpful.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /interviews/chabon.cfm (2070 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Final Solution: Books: Michael Chabon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist: v.
		But Chabon focuses on the story of Holmes -- who is never specifically named -- as he ponders his twilight years, and the changes in the world around him.
		There's one chapter that is pure Chabon (from the POV of Bruno the parrot), but the rest of the time, it feels like a much older book than it is, complete with vicarages, WW II spies and relics of the nineteenth century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Final-Solution-Michael-Chabon/dp/0007196024 (1062 words)

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