American · b. 1963
Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," an epic about two Jewish cousins who create a comic book superhero during World War II. The American author moves between genres—detective fiction, alternate history, fantasy—while maintaining literary ambition. His essays defend popular fiction's seriousness. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" imagines Jewish refugees settling in Alaska; "Telegraph Avenue" maps a Berkeley record store. Chabon writes sentence by sentence with evident pleasure.