
Author · born 1963
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born 1963) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist. Born in Washington, D.C..
Our catalogue lists 4 books by Michael Chabon, mostly alternate history, bisexual fiction and historical fiction. They span 1988 to 2010. The most-read is The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2006).
Books by Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon

The Final Solution
Michael Chabon

Sympathy for the Devil
Tim Pratt, Michael Chabon
Awards
- 🏆Hugo Awards 2008 — Best Novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 2005 — Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, Spider-Man 2 (nominee)
- 🏆Nebula Awards 2008 — Best Novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2008 — Best Science Fiction Novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2004 — Best Anthology, McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2003 — Best Young Adult Book, Summerland (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2002 — Best Short Story, The God of Dark Laughter (nominee)
- 🏆Mythopoeic Awards 2003 — Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, Summerland (winner)
- 🏆Sidewise Award for Alternate History 2007 — Overall, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner)
- ✦BSFA Awards 2007 — Best Novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (nominee)
Biography
Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, *Wonder Boys* (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,* a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel *The Yiddish Policemen's Union,* an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel *Gentlemen of the Road* appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. His novel *Telegraph Avenue,* published in 2012 and billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004. Source: Wikipedia