Michael Chabon s Pulitzer Prize winning novel debuts
Michael Chabons third novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is published on September 19 2000.It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. Chabon who was born in Washington D.C.in 1963 graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and earned a masters degree in creative writing from the University of California Irvine.
His first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh a coming-of-age story set in the city named in the title was written as his graduate school thesis.Published in 1988 the book became a best-seller and was later made into a movie.Among Chabons other credits are The Yiddish Policemens Union a 2007 detective novel Telegraph Avenue a 2012 novel and Moonglow a 2016 novel.He has also written screenplays and several collections of short stories. Chabon is married to writer Ayelet Waldman with whom he has four children.
