Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born
1963) is an
American author who grew up in
Columbia, Maryland. His first novel,
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh appeared in
1988 and became a best seller. His subsequent works include
Wonder Boys (
1995), which grew out of his frustration of a much larger, unfinished novel about the construction of a perfect baseball park entitled 'Fountain City' and which was made into a
motion picture,
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay which won the
2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and "Summerland" (
2002), a novel written for younger readers, which won the
2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
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