Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | 1988 |
| Wonder Boys | 1995 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | 2000 |
| Summerland | 2002 |
| The Final Solution | 2004 |
| The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | 2007 |
| Gentlemen of the Road | 2007 |
| Telegraph Avenue | 2012 |
| Moonglow | 2016 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| A Model World and Other Stories | 1991 |
| Werewolves in Their Youth | 1999 |
Publication Order of Children’s Books
| The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man | 2011 |
| Awesome Man: The Mystery Intruder | 2020 |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, Volume 1 | 2004 |
| The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, Volume 2 | 2004 |
| The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, Volume 3 | 2006 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Maps and Legends | 2008 |
| Manhood for Amateurs | 2009 |
| Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces | 2018 |
| Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros | 2019 |
About Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born 24 May 1963 in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”, and the Hugo and Nebula awards for his alternate history detective novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”.
Chabon’s parents divorced when he was 11, and he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Columbia, Maryland. He spent a year at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated in 1984, and then took a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of California, Irvine. His master’s thesis was the novel “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”. One of his professors sent it to a literary agent without telling him, and it was published in 1988, when he was 24, and became a bestseller.
He then spent five years on a second novel, “Fountain City”, which he abandoned before writing “Wonder Boys” (1995). Curtis Hanson directed the 2000 film version, starring Michael Douglas. “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” (2000) follows 16 years in the lives of Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay, two Jewish cousins who create a hugely popular comic book series in the early 1940s. Its fictional superhero later appeared in a Dark Horse comics anthology, “The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist”, which won the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.
Much of his later work draws on genre fiction. “Summerland” (2002) is a fantasy novel for younger readers that won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. “The Final Solution” (2004) is a novella about an elderly detective whom the reader can guess to be Sherlock Holmes. “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” (2007) is a hard-boiled detective story set in a world where European Jews settled in Alaska, and “Gentlemen of the Road”, an adventure story about two Jewish bandits, was serialised in The New York Times Magazine in 2007.
“Telegraph Avenue” (2012) concerns two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. “Moonglow” (2016), his most recent novel, is a fictionalised memoir based on the deathbed confessions of his grandfather. He has since published two non-fiction books, “Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces” (2018) and “Bookends” (2019). For the screen, Chabon wrote a draft of “Spider-Man 2” and was showrunner of the first season of “Star Trek: Picard”. He is married to the writer Ayelet Waldman.
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