You kind of want to hate him.īut it is hard to hate him. He has four children and a happy marriage and a beautiful Craftsman home in Berkeley, California, and a full head of salt-and-pepper hair. His new novel, Moonglow - a fictional memoir about Chabon's family - has already been nominated for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and was called 'elegiac and deeply poignant' in Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review. He has written comics, children’s books, essays, musicals, song lyrics, and a viral GQ essay about taking his 13-year-old son to Paris Men’s Fashion Week he is the chairman of the board of the MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in New Hampshire. In 2001, at the age of 37, he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a book about superheroes and comics that is credited with bringing a literary sensibility to genre fiction.

His second novel, Wonder Boys, was made into a critically acclaimed (if commercially underperforming) 2000 film by Curtis Hanson. He wrote his first novel, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, while in the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine his professor, the late author MacDonald Harris, sent it to his agent, who promptly sold it, and it became a bestseller. Today, Chabon is 53 and one of the most venerated and successful living writers in America, a brilliant storyteller with a litany of nerdy interests (comics, rockets, science fiction) that he weaves into his books in a manner that seems effortless. Finally, one young boy around his age showed up with his mother - and promptly left, telling Chabon that the dollar was too steep an admission fee. At the mall, his mother left him to run errands, while Chabon waited for others to arrive. Chabon, who by then was living with his mother in Columbia, Maryland, had taken out an ad in the local paper inviting people to a multipurpose room at a local mall, where he intended to charge attendees $1 for membership. When the author Michael Chabon was 11 years old, two events occurred that would have outsized influence on his life and work: His parents separated, and only one person showed up to the first and only meeting of the Columbia Comic Book Club.

Moonglow by Michael Chabon