Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963 in Washington, DC ) is an American writer , screenwriter and television producer . For his novel The Incredible Adventures of Kavalier and Clay , he received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in the "Fiction" category. In 2015, this novel was chosen by the BBC's selection of the best 20 novels from 2000 to 2014 as one of the most important works of this century to date.

Life

Childhood and youth

Chabon was born Sharon and Robert Chabons in Washington DC on May 24, 1963. His parents had Polish , Lithuanian and Russian roots. He is also of Jewish descent. Chabon's father was a lawyer and pediatrician and now works for the Mutual of Omaha insurance company . Chabon's mother was a lawyer. He grew up in Columbia , Maryland with his parents and younger brother . At the age of ten, Chabon began writing his first stories. His first short story was called “ Sherlock Holmes meets Captain Nemo ” , which he typed on his mother's typewriter . To his astonishment, he finished it. He himself says of his first attempt in this field: “I tried to write in the Arthur Conan Doyle style . For the first time I became clear about the style , choice of words, language and expression. ” As well as writing, reading comics was one of Chabon's childhood hobbies. His grandfather had worked in a New York printing company, where, among other things, comics were printed, which he got for free because of his work there and which his son, Robert Chabon, often brought with him in bags. Michael Chabon therefore received numerous comics from his father. Chabon told Onion AV Club in 2000: “When I started reading, my father thought it was only natural that I should be interested in comics too, and he started bringing me comics to read, although he didn't get it for free. ” Also at the age of ten, he founded a comic club, for which he rented a room for $ 25 and placed ads in the newspaper. Only one child stopped by, but disappeared a short time later. In October 2005, Chabon wrote in an issue of Details magazine: “That was the moment when I began to see myself as a failure. It's a quality that I haven't lost since. ” When he was eleven, his parents divorced. The following year, his father moved to Pittsburgh , where Chabon went on vacation. In high school , he began selling his extensive collection of comics, mostly DC and Marvel comics , in order to buy records . During this time he developed a great interest in the band Queen . He said he was a good boy in high school who didn't care about alcohol and drugs . He started smoking, drinking, and smoking cannabis in college , which he did not consider a youthful rebellion for not being home.

Studies and beginnings as a writer

In 1984, Chabon earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pittsburgh . He was tutored by Dennis Bartel, Eve Shelnutt, and Chuck Kinder, and became close friends with Kinder. He later attended the University of California , Irvine. He chose the Creative Writing course in order to find the time, financial and moral help necessary to begin a career as a writer. In 1987 he completed his Master of Fine Arts in "Creative Writing" with a piece of work that impressed his professor MacDonald Harris so much that he gave the manuscript to his agent without Chabon's knowledge. He was able to sell Chabon's thesis, "The Secrets of Pittsburgh" for $ 155,000 to William Morrow Publishers. His thesis, which he began in 1985 at the age of 22, finally brought Chabon his first bestseller success in 1988 . Since the story was about sexual disorientation and homosexuality , it was often assumed that this was Chabon's own sexual orientation. As a result, Chabons was mistakenly included in a list of gay authors by Newsweek magazine . But this error is by no means a hindrance to him. He told the New York Times , “I'm very happy about it. It opened up a new readership for me, and a very loyal one at that. ” Due to the protagonist's adolescence, as described in “ The Secrets of Pittsburgh ” , numerous critics sought comparison with JD Salinger's masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye and works by Francis Scott Fitzgerald .

Setback and next book success

After the success of his first book, Chabon started his next book in 1987, entitled "Fountain City" . The book, which he estimated to be around 200 pages, had grown to around 800 pages after five years of work. Chabon grew more and more doubts about the feasibility of the book, but he was repeatedly urged to complete the book by his editor at William Morrow Publishers, Douglas Stumpf. But over the years the book got more and more out of control and Chabon decided to leave the project unfinished. The book would have done by an architect in Florida a revolutionary ballpark wanted to create. For fear of having been a one-hit wonder , he processed his experiences in his second novel "Wonder Boys" , which appeared in 1995.

Divorce and new love

During his work on "Fountain City" a lot changed in Chabon's private life. He moved five times in six years and divorced his wife Lollie Groth in 1991. In his short story “The hand on my shoulder” published in 1997, he wrote the following about the time with Groth: “My ex-wife and I had good times and bad times, fought and were quiet, tried and gave up and tried more before we shook the towel threw, focused, with the special self-absorption of the miserable, on our little drama and its echo in our own breasts. "

He lived with another woman before he met Ayelet Waldman on a blind date in 1992 . Waldman knew of Chabon's reputation and told the LA Times , “When he showed up, I said, 'Thank you so much for the flowers. Are you gay? '” Three weeks later, Chabon proposed marriage to her. They married a year later. Chabon now lives in Berkeley , California with her and their four children, Sophie, Ezekiel Napoleon (Zeke), Ida-Rose and Abraham .

Higher goals

“Wonder Boys” was received positively by the critics and received numerous benevolent reviews. Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post ended his equally positive review of Wonder Boys with the words: “It's time for him to move on, break away from the first person perspective and explore bigger words. His apprenticeship is over; it was brilliant, but the unwritten books are the ones in which we will learn how far this single writer can go. ” Yardley's invitation was also Chabon's motivation. He worked on a larger story about two Jewish cousins who established their comic heroes, the escapists , in the golden era of comics . He worked on this book for the next five years. Because of the length, he feared it might end like "Fountain City" , but he trusted the story.

In autumn 2000 he published "The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay" . The book received the most positive reviews any Chabon work had ever received. He has received numerous awards, including the PEN / Faulkner Award and the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in the "Fiction" category. Just as “The Secrets of Pittsburgh” opened up a large circle of homosexual readers to him, a large number of comic book-loving readers opened up. From then on, he was a guest at comic congresses and received an offer from DC Comics to publish his hero, Mr. Terrific, as a comic. Dark Horse Comics started a comic series featuring the escapist called Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist .

Further career

After “The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay” , Chabon published the children's book “Sommerland” , which broke new ground. The imaginative story is often compared to the Harry Potter books , but it was far more unsuccessful. "McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales" is a collection of short stories that he has put together. He was also responsible for the successor "McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories" .

In 2004 Chabon published "The Last Riddle" , a novel about the last case of Sherlock Holmes, who spent his retirement breeding bees at the age of 89 , but met an enigmatic, silent boy who was leading a talking parrot .

Chabon published his next novel in 2007 under the title "The Association of Yiddish Policemen" , the filming of which was announced shortly afterwards by film producer Scott Rudin .

Since his success with "The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay" in 2000, Chabon's career has seen a steep upswing. In 2005 he was given the honor of compiling The Best American Short Stories 2005. He also regularly writes columns for the magazine “Details”.

Activity in Hollywood

Chabon has worked on several Hollywood and TV productions. For example, he delivered a draft script for Spider-Man 2 , a third of which was incorporated into the film. His script for his hit novel “The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay” has been reviewed a few times, but the exact start of production has not yet been determined.

In an interview with The Onion , Chabon stated that he started scriptwriting for more financial than artistic reasons: “The problems you have as a writer have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to to supplement the income one gets from writing books. In my case, I got the chance to work in Hollywood with the TV stuff I was doing. And that's very important because my wife is also a writer and we don't have health insurance through an employer. That's why our insurance comes from the writers' guild, so the only way to ensure my family's health is by working in Hollywood. ” Chabon added that he would much rather write novels all day. Nevertheless, his work in Hollywood is well recognized. This is how the film critic Roger Ebert judged the second Spider-Man film: “One of the keys to the success of the film must be the involvement of the writer Michael Chabon on the script; Chabon has it in his blood what comics are and why. "

plant

The secrets of Pittsburgh

Chabon's first novel, The Secrets of Pittsburgh, was originally his graduate thesis in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and eventually became a best-seller in the United States in 1988 . The book is about the ambivalent Art Bechstein and his last summer free, which he experienced after finishing college. He meets numerous bizarre and eccentric people, especially the strange girl Phlox, with whom he enters into a relationship, but also his namesake Arthur, with whom he also enters into a homosexual relationship. Both relationships break after Phlox learns about the triangle. There is also an argument with his father, who belongs to the mafia , and he has to overcome his mother's unresolved death. Literary critics received Chabon's work positively. The verdict of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : "Chabon has mastered the art of concise figure drawing, linguistic wit and accurate metaphors." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "The memory of the festival of youth, its magical shine and the certainty of never-more." The Kulturweltspiegel announced that there has been "no such piece of young literature" since Fänger im Roggen .

Wonder Boys

Chabon's second novel, Wonder Boys , did not appear until 1995, after he said he had spent five years writing a novel called Fountain City , but failed and the project had broken off. In Wonder Boys is about the college professor of creative writing, Grady Tripp, who has attracted attention in the past by some notable successes in the book market. He has a relationship with the wife of his department head, leads a long party life and smokes joints all the time . Tripp experiences a turbulent weekend with his favorite student James Leer, whom he unintentionally prevents from suicide . In Wonder Boys, Chabon processes his unsuccessful attempt to complete Fountain City by letting Grady Tripp work on a book entitled Wonder Boys , which has grown to an unreadable monumental manuscript with an incomplete 2611 pages. Chabon's second work also became a bestseller and was well received by critics. Sun praised the New York Times, Wonder Boys was "an intelligent poetic book full of elegant melancholy and wonderful wit." The novel was in 2000 with Michael Douglas , Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr. filmed .

The incredible adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Chabon celebrated his greatest success with his third novel The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay , which was published in 2000. He describes the life of the two Jewish cousins ​​Josef Kavalier and Sammy Klayman in the golden age of comics in the 1940s. Within the book they create a fictional comic series The Incredible Adventures of the Escapist , in which the superhero , the escapist, has the ability of escapism , which means his extraordinary ability to escape . The anti-fascist hero fights against Hitler's regime , from which Kavalier fled in 1939. Chabon lets people from contemporary history such as Salvador Dalí and Orson Welles appear in small supporting roles ; the literary figure of the golem occupies a large space . As with the two previous releases, the criticism of The incredible adventures of Kavalier and Clay was positive. New York news magazine Newsweek praised the balance of humor and figure depth: “An outstanding, daring, exciting book with a masterfully crafted plot and an absolute sense of humor - and yet the characters are so convincing that you think they can just stand up and walk out of the side. " the Time recognizes the power, fact and fiction skillfully have joined: " the kind of prose that spans a large narrative arc around 600 pages invented and History - but has never seen anyone with so much imagination, verve and love tells. " The San Francisco Chronicle sees in " The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay " the work that Chabon created at the height of his career and therefore the most valuable work of his life: " From a single source, imaginative and heartfelt , ›Kavalier & Clay‹ shows a thoroughbred author at the height of his ability. ”In 2001 Chabon received for the His bestseller won the Pulitzer Prize in the "Fiction" category.

Summer land

His fourth novel, Sommerland , was published in 2002 . It is his first book that is also aimed at a younger audience and belongs to the fantasy genre . It tells the story of the miserable baseball player Ethan Feld, whose team has to accept one defeat after another. An oracle has designated him as "the wanted one" in order to defeat the coyote in a parallel universe , who wants to destroy one parallel universe after the other. The book contains numerous baseball references, which is why the German edition has a small set of rules as an appendix for readers who are not familiar with the subject of baseball.

The final riddle

In 2004, Chabon published a novel called The Final Riddle . He tells of the 89-year-old Sherlock Holmes who lives in seclusion in the English provinces to devote himself to beekeeping. When the mute, nine-year-old boy Linus Steinman shows up with his talking parrot, the aging detective is once again asked to solve the riddle about the boy. Chabon's attempt to write a detective story in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle received positive press coverage. The Chicago Tribune sees the detective novel “a loving homage to the genre.” For New York Magazine , The Final Riddle is “a profound pleasure.” The New York Sun praised Chabon with the words: “One of the best American novels this fall ... a master's experiment. "

The Association of Yiddish Police Officers

In 2007 Chabon completed his alternative historical detective novel The Association of Yiddish Police Officers. The novel is based on the assumption that in 1941 the United States set up a temporary self-government area for Jews fleeing Europe in Alaska , which after sixty years is returning to American administration. The action takes place in the fictional Jewish city of Sitka, which has only the name in common with the real Sitka . The alcohol addicted police officer Meyer Landsman is supposed to solve the murder of a chess player and gets on the trail of the sinister machinations of his Jewish compatriots, who are preparing in a very unique way for the end of Jewish self-government in Alaska. The novel won all three major American science fiction / fantasy prizes Hugo, Nebula and Locus / SF, which only succeeded in six novels after the 1970s [as of 2014].

subjects

homosexuality

It has been suggested that Chabon might be homosexual himself after same-sex relationships were discussed in his first three novels. In “The Secrets of Pittsburgh” between Art Bechstein and Arthur, in “Wonder Boys” between Grady Tripp's editor Terry Crabtree and the student James Leer, and Sammy Klayman, who hides his homosexual inclinations. In a new edition of his first work "The Secrets of Pittsburgh", Chabon added an appendix in which he discussed the main character's homosexuality. In it, he also admits to having had some same-sex relationships himself. The fact that he is married to a woman today, however, refutes the thesis that he is homosexual. Chabon commented on homosexuality as a topic in his books in 2001 in the music magazine “ Rolling Stone ”: “I am interested in questions of identity and sexuality and how things like these are determined and defined. And I'm particularly interested in relationships between straight and gay men because I think there are a lot of friendships out there like this where one best friend is gay and the other is straight, but I don't think much has been written about such friendships or that they will be featured in films or on television. I've had a lot of them in my life. We used to talk about the drawers you get put in and that people are way too complicated for that, but there are no words, labels or names for them. And for me that's great material for fiction. "

Judaism

Chabon, who is himself a Jew , has incorporated Jewish characters into numerous books and addressed anti-Semitism .

In “Wonder Boys”, for example, the Warshaw family of Grady Tripp's third wife, Emily, is Jewish. He visits her with the student James Leer to celebrate the Passover festival with Emily's family . The traditional family meal is described, in which symbolic meals are consumed by all those present according to a fixed sequence and the Haggadah is read. In “The Incredible Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” , Josef Kavalier and Sammy Klayman also feature Jewish characters. With the escape of Kavaliers from the Czech Republic in the late 1930s, an anti-Semitic element even emerged. The book also describes the influence of Jewish authors and artists on American pop culture.

family

Chabon's own biography of the torn family also appears in his books, in which he depicts non-ideal family constellations. In his debut novel "The Secrets of Pittsburgh" he describes a tense father-son relationship. In addition, with the death of the mother, the ideal family image is broken. In “Wonder Boys” the first-person narrator Grady Tripp failed as a family man after two divorces and another affair. Nevertheless, he seeks closeness to the family by participating in the Passover festival. James Leer's family is also depicted as broken, although it is never really clear to what extent this image is falsified only by his own fiction. He once said that he grew up with his grandparents, another time with his parents. The divorce of Chabon's parents made sure that he addressed divorces, fatherhood and being single in his novels.

Writing behavior

Chabon's philosophy sees three essential elements as the basis of writing: talent , luck, and discipline . Discipline is the only one of the three pillars that a writer can control, which is why one should focus on it. With regard to the other two, one should hope and trust in them.

His way of working is to write from Sunday to Thursday, starting at 10 p.m. and stopping writing between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. He prefers to wear an old, golden-brown sweater from “Nordstrom”, which he says is the “perfect writing sweater ” . Chabon writes at least a thousand words a day. According to an interview with the New York Times, the fact that Chabon and Waldman occasionally exchanged ideas was due to the fact that they were working in the same room. “I'm sitting at the desk, she's on the couch and works on the laptop. I ask her from time to time when I can't remember a word or a person. I can't say now whether you're bothering the other person. But mostly we're in there, and it's just click, click, click. "

Movies

Film adaptations

Chabon's 1995 bestseller, Wonder Boys , was filmed by director Curtis Hanson in 2000 with Michael Douglas , Tobey Maguire , Frances McDormand , Robert Downey Jr. and Katie Holmes . With only $ 19 million in US revenue, The WonderBoys is considered a financial failure. At the 2001 Academy Awards, Bob Dylan was honored for the theme song "Things have changed" . The film was also nominated in the categories “Best Adapted Screenplay” and “Best Editing”.

"The Secrets of Pittsburgh" was filmed in the fall of 2006 by Rawson Marshall Thurber with Jon Foster , Sienna Miller , Peter Sarsgaard and Mena Suvari in the leading roles ( German title: Ein vergeschnisvolle Sommer ). Nick Nolte took over the role of the despotic father . However, the film was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008 . The fact that the key character appearing in the novel by Arthur Lecompte was left out, caused heated discussions between Chabon and the director Thurber.

In February 2008 it was reported that Columbia Pictures had secured the film rights to "Yiddish Policemen's Union" and that Joel and Ethan Coen would realize the project by 2010 . This should be done as soon as the Coen brothers finished their work on A Serious Man . In the same month, however, it was also rumored that the Coen brothers would do a remake of the western The Marshal as their next project . This film was released in 2010 under the title True Grit , while the Chabon film adaptation in March 2011 is still a long way off.

script

Michael Chabon was instrumental in the production of Spider-Man 2 . A third of his story draft was used in the later script by Alvin Sargent . Sargent received for the script a. a. the Saturn Award 2004.

He has also written an adaptation of the script for The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay , which Stephen Daldry is to film.

For Disney, Chabon worked on the script for the Edgar Rice Burroughs film adaptation of John Carter - Between Two Worlds . He was also involved in the 2019 series Unbelievable .

In 2019 he played a decisive role in a new Star Trek series. He was the screenwriter and showrunner of Star Trek: Picard , which first appeared on Prime Video .

Awards

Chabons short story Son of the Wolfman was included in the selection of the O. Henry Prize in 1999 and received a "National Magazine Award"

For his greatest success, The Incredible Adventures of Cavalier and Clay , Michael Chabon received the Pulitzer Prize in the "Fiction" category, his greatest award to date. He was also awarded the PEN / Faulkner Award , the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and many other prizes. It was selected as one of the "Most Notable Books of 2000" by the American Library Association .

His fantasy story Summerland received the 2003 Mythopoeic Award in the “Children's Literature” category.

His comic series Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist won the 2005 Eisner Award in the “Best Anthology” category. The series also received two Harvey Awards in 2005 in the categories "Best New Series" and "Best Anthology".

The novella The Last Riddle received the "National Jewish Book Award" in 2005 and the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from the American literary magazine " The Paris Review ".

The novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union received the Nebula Award in 2007 and the Hugo Award in 2008 and the Locus Award for best novel. In 2009 Chabon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 2012 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Other awards:

  • 2007 Sidewise Award for The Yiddish Policemen's Union in the category "Long Form Alternate History"
  • 2009 Premio Ignotus for El sindicato de policía yiddish ( The Yiddish Policemen's Union ) in the category "Mejor novela extranjera" (best foreign novel)

bibliography

Novels
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988)
  • Wonder Boys (1995)
    • German: Wonder boys. Translated by Hans Hermann. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-462-02521-X .
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
    • English: The incredible adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002, ISBN 3-462-03136-8 .
  • Summerland (2002)
    • German: Sommerland. Translated by Reiner Pfleiderer. Hanser, Munich and Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-446-20441-5 .
  • The Final Solution: A Story of Detection ( Sherlock Holmes story, 2004)
    • English: The final riddle: a detective novel. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer and Witsch (KiWi # 897), Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03626-2 .
  • The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)
    • German: The Association of Yiddish Police Officers. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03972-6 . Also as: The Association of Yiddish Policemen: Detective Novel. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv # 13793), Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-13793-5 .
  • Gentlemen of the Road (2007)
    • English: Villains of the Landstrasse: An Adventure Story. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04189-7 .
  • Telegraph Avenue (2012)
    • German: Telegraph Avenue. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04617-5 .
  • Moonglow (2016)
    • German: Moonglow. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch eBook, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05074-5 .
Collections
  • A Model World and Other Stories (1991)
  • Werewolves In Their Youth (1999)
    • German: Young werewolves. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-462-03307-7 .
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh / Wonder Boys / Werewolves in Their Youth (2018, collective edition)
Short stories

1991:

  • Admirals (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • Blumenthal on the Air (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • The Halloween Party (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • The Little Knife (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • The Lost World (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • Millionaires (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • A Model World (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • More Than Human (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • S ANGEL (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )
  • Smoke (1991, in: Michael Chabon: A Model World and Other Stories )

1997:

  • In the Black Mill (in: Playboy, June 1997 )

2001:

  • The God of Dark Laughter (in: The New Yorker, April 9, 2001 )

2003:

  • The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance (2003, in: Michael Chabon: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales )

2004:

  • From The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2004, in: Bill Manhire (Ed.): The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica )

2011:

  • The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man (2011)

2017:

  • The Sandmeyer Reaction (2017)
Anthologies
  • McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2003)
  • McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004)
  • The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 1 (2004)
  • The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 2 (2004)
  • The Best American Short Stories 2005 (with Katrina Kenison)
  • The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist 3 (2016)
  • Fight of the Century (2020; with Ayelet Waldman )
Non-fiction
  • Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (2008)
  • Manhood For Amateurs (2009)
    • German: Being a man for beginners: A life as a husband, father and son. Translated by Andrea Fischer. Deutsche Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv # 14248), Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-14248-9 .
  • Kingdom of Olives and Ash (2017; with Ayelet Waldman)
  • Pops (2018)
  • Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros (2019)

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Chabon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Biography Chabons
  3. ↑ Interview with David Louis Edelman ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.davidlouisedelman.com
  4. ↑ All Award Winners Table of all winners of the last 60 years of 17 different SF / Fantasy / Horror literary prizes on Worlds Without End
  5. ↑ Michael Fleming: Coens speak 'Yiddish' for Columbia ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , variety.com, February 11, 2008, accessed November 25, 2011
  6. ↑ Baz Bamigboye: Joel and Ethan Coen saddle up for a truly gritty remake of a Western classic , dailymail.co.uk, February 29, 2008, accessed November 25, 2011
  7. ↑ Michael Chabon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. ↑ Juliet Linderman: Michael Chabon Sells Show To HBO by , Jewcy.com, March 8, 2011, accessed November 25, 2011
  9. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chabon, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bach, Leon Chaim (pseudonym); Cohen, Malachi B. (pseudonym); Zorn, August Van (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , USA