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Michael Chabon

Biography

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of many books, including THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION, GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, TELEGRAPH AVENUE, MOONGLOW, POPS and the picture book THE ASTONISHING SECRET OF AWESOME MAN. He is the editor, with Ayelet Waldman, of KINGDOMS OF OLIVE AND ASH: Writers Confront the Occupation and FIGHT OF THE CENTURY: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases.

Michael Chabon

Books by Michael Chabon

Telegraph Avenue
by Michael Chabon - Fiction

Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are longtime friends and co-regents of a used record store. But when ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode announces his plan to build a megastore nearby, the duo fears that it will mean certain death for their small business. What they don’t know is that this announcement marks the peak of a secret history, including a forgotten crime of the Black Panther era. How will the two make it through these trying times?

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon - Fiction, Literary Fiction

In 1939 New York, a young artist who also has been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, teams up with his cousin teams up with his cousin to create a great American literary product --- the comic book. As the shadow of Hitler falls over Europe and ultimately the world, the boys end up immersed in the Golden Age of Comic Books, finding greater fame and more trouble than they could ever have imagined.