VJ Books Presents Author Michael Chabon!
 Michael Chabon was born in 1963 in Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984. In 1987, he received an M.F.A. in English Writing from the University of California, Irvine.
Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was originally written for his master's thesis at U.C. Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller. Chabon's second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), was also a bestseller, and was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire.
His first young adult novel, Summerland, was published in 2002 and won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature.
Chabon recently accepted the position of chairman of the board of directors at the MacDowell Colony. In March 2012 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Michael Chabon has lectured widely on topics including the art and craft of writing, the tradition of Jewish fiction, and Vladimir Nabokov, to name but a very few.
Since 1997, he has been living with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children, in Berkeley.
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Michael Chabon's Bibliography
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - 1988
- Wonder Boys - 1995
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - 2000
- The Final Solution - 2004
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union - 2007
- Gentlemen of the Road - 2007
- Telegraph Avenue - 2012
- Moonglow - November 2016
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