Michael Chabon is an American author of literary fiction and children’s novels. Aside from his novels and children’s books, he has also written and published screenplays, comics and newspaper serials. Michael realized he wanted to be a writer after writing a short story for school at age 10, and never looked back. Chabon attended Carnegie Mellon University, but transferred to the University of Pittsburgh and earned his B.A. under Chuck Kinder in 1984. He then got his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine. Although Michael is known for his literary fiction, he is a strong defender of genre fiction. Michael lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their four children.
Michael Chabon made his debut as a published novelist in 1988 with the novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Throughout his career, he has received such awards as the O. Henry Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Below is a list of Michael Chabon’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Amazing Adventures Of The Escapist Books
(with Brian K. Vaughan)
Publication Order of Awesome Man Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Notes: The Best American Short Stories 2005 was edited with Katrina Kenison. My California also contains contributions by Mark Arax, Firoozeh Dumas, Edward Humes, Aimee Liu, Mary Mackey, Devorah Major, T. Jefferson Parker, Thomas Steinbeck, Hector Tobar, Donna Wares and Matt Warshaw. Kingdom of Olives and Ash and Fight of the Century were edited alongside Ayelet Waldman.
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Michael Chabon Synopsis: Summerland is a standalone title by Michael Chabon. Ethan Feld’s summer has been terrible. His father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has been labelled the least gifted baseball player the island has ever seen. Things begin to go Ethan’s way when a mysterious baseball scout named Ringfinger Brown and a seven-hundred-and-sixty-five-year-old werefox enter his life, dragging Ethan into another world called the Summerlands. But this beautiful, warm-weathered locale is facing destruction at the hands of the villainous Coyote, and a prophecy has been told that only Ethan can save it.
