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Chabon just finished adapting his incredible novel, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay', into a screenplay. It took eight drafts.

Chabon won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Literature (fiction) for his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay".

Says that his inspiration for "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" was fear. He was afraid that all of the other students, at the college he was attending, had already written novels, and he didn't want to be left out. He found "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth in his step-father's basement office next to each other on a shelf. Both later heavily influenced his "Mysteries" novel, especially the idea of it taking place over a summer which he thought would be "easiest".

Quoted in Entertainment Weekly Magazine as saying that his often-mispronounced last name should be pronounced "Shea as in Stadium, Bon as in Jovi.".

Wrote a piece about the passing of his father for the November 18, 2019, issue of The New Yorker. The article is entitled "The Final Frontier." Subtitled, "Star Trek guides a hospital vigil.".

American novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer, the son of a pediatrician and a lawyer, he grew up in Columbia, Maryland.

Has four children with wife Ayelet Waldman: Sophie Chabon, Ezekiel Napoleon (Zeke) Chabon, Ida-Rose Chabon and Abraham Chabon.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 73-79. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.