Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American novelist and essayist known for his elegant deployment of figurative language and adventurous experiments with genre conceits. His narratives are frequently suffused with references to world mythology and to his own Jewish heritage. Chabon was the elder of two children. His father, who was a pediatrician and hospital administrator, and mother, who became a lawyer following the couple’s 1975 divorce, moved the family...