Editing Michael Chabon (section)

==Biography==
===Early life===
Chabon was born in [[Washington, D.C.]], to an [[Ashkenazi]] [[Jewish]] family. His parents are Robert Chabon, a physician and lawyer, and Sharon Chabon, a lawyer. Chabon said he knew he wanted to be a writer when, at the age of ten, he wrote his first short story for a class assignment. When the story received an A, he recalls, "I thought to myself, 'That's it. That's what I want to do. I can do this.' And I never had any second thoughts or doubts."<ref name="writing">{{cite web |last= Cahill|first= Bryon |title= Michael Chabon: A Writer with Many Faces. "... at the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business."|url= http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Michael+Chabon:+a+writer+with+many+faces.+%22at+the+beginning+of+the...-a0130930854|date= April 1, 2005|work= The Free Library|publisher= Farlex Inc.|format= Online archive of original publication: Cahill, Bryon. "Michael Chabon: a writer with many faces". ''Writing'' '''27''' (6): 16–19. [[Weekly Reader|Weekly Reader Corp.]]|access-date=July 3, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Referring to popular culture, he wrote of being raised "on a hearty diet of crap".<ref>''Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son,'' by Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, 2009. p. 76.</ref> His parents divorced when he was 11, and he grew up in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, and [[Columbia, Maryland|Columbia]], Maryland. Columbia, where he lived nine months of the year with his mother, was "a progressive planned living community in which racial, economic, and religious diversity were actively fostered."<ref name="eintro"/> He has written of his mother's [[marijuana]] use, recalling her "sometime around 1977 or so, sitting in the front seat of her friend Kathy's car, passing a little metal pipe back and forth before we went in to see a movie."<ref>''Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son'', by Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, 2009, p. 32.</ref> He grew up hearing [[Yiddish]] spoken by his mother's parents and siblings.<ref name="yiddish">{{cite web |last= Goldstein|first= Sarah |title= Jews on ice.|quote= ... My grandparents both spoke Yiddish on my mother's side...|url= http://www.salon.com/2007/05/04/chabon_5/|date= May 4, 2007|work=  [[Salon (website)|Salon.com]]|access-date=April 13, 2013}}</ref>

Chabon attended [[Carnegie Mellon University]] for a year before transferring to the [[University of Pittsburgh]], where he studied under [[Chuck Kinder]] and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1984.<ref name="eintro"/> He went on to graduate school at the [[University of California, Irvine]], where he received a [[Master of Fine Arts]] in creative writing.

===''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' and initial literary success===
Chabon's first novel, ''[[The Mysteries of Pittsburgh]]'', was written as his UC Irvine master's thesis. Without telling Chabon, his professor, [[Donald Heiney]] (better known by his pen name, MacDonald Harris), sent it to a literary agent,<ref name = "monitor">{{cite news | url = http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1130/p17s01-bogn.html |date = November 30, 2004 | title = Able to Leap over Literary Barriers in a Single Book: Chabon Ranges from Kabbalah to Captain Nemo | last = Spanberg | first = Erik |work =[[The Christian Science Monitor]] | access-date = July 3, 2009}}</ref> who got the author an impressive $155,000 advance on the novel, though most first-time novelists receive advances under $7,500.<ref name = "sent">{{cite news | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-30-ca-gottlieb30-story.html |date = June 30, 2002 | title = Adventures in Rewriting |last = Gottlieb |first = Jeff| work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | access-date = July 2, 2009}}</ref> ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' appeared in 1988 and was a bestseller, instantly catapulting Chabon to literary celebrity. Among his major literary influences in this period were [[Donald Barthelme]], [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Gabriel García Márquez]], [[Raymond Chandler]], [[John Updike]], [[Philip Roth]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]].<ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/27/michael-chabon-interview-christopher-tayler | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Michael Chabon: 'I hadn't read a lot by men of my generation and background about being a father – it felt like I was on relatively untrodden ground' | first=Christopher | last=Tayler | date=March 27, 2010 | access-date=May 12, 2010}}</ref> As he remarked in 2010, "I just copied the writers whose voices I was responding to, and I think that's probably the best way to learn."<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/>

Chabon was ambivalent about his newfound fame. He turned down offers to appear in a [[Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap]] ad and to be featured as one of ''[[People (magazine)|People]]''{{'}}s "50 Most Beautiful People".<ref name="buzbee">{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/24/reviews/000924.24buz.html |date = October 26, 2012 | title = Michael Chabon: Comics Came First |last = Buzbee |first = Lewis| work = [[The New York Times]] | access-date = July 2, 2009}}</ref> He later said of the ''People'' offer, "I don't give a shit [about it] ... I only take pride in things I've actually done myself. To be praised for something like that is just weird. It just felt like somebody calling and saying, 'We want to put you in a magazine because the weather's so nice where you live.' "<ref name="rolling"/>

In 2001, Chabon reflected on the success of his first novel, noting that while "the upside was that I was published and I got a readership," the downside was the emotional impact: "this stuff started happening and I was still like, 'Wait a minute, is my thesis done yet?' It took me a few years to catch up."<ref name="rolling"/> In 1991, he published ''[[A Model World and Other Stories|A Model World]]'', a collection of short stories, many of which were previously published in ''[[The New Yorker]]''.

===''Fountain City'' and ''Wonder Boys''===
After the success of ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'', Chabon spent five years working on a second novel, ''Fountain City'', a "highly ambitious opus ... about an architect building a perfect baseball park in Florida."<ref name = "onion">{{cite news | url = https://www.avclub.com/michael-chabon-1798208116 | title = An Interview with Michael Chabon |last = Tobias |first = Scott| work = The Onion|date = November 22, 2000| access-date = September 4, 2012}}</ref> It ballooned to 1,500 pages, with no end in sight.<ref name="writing"/> The process was frustrating for Chabon, who, in his words, "never felt like I was conceptually on steady ground."<ref name="onion"/>

At one point, he submitted a 672-page draft to his agent and editor, who disliked the work<!--both disliked it, or just the agent?-->. Chabon had problems dropping the novel, though. "It was really scary," he said later. "I'd already signed a contract and been paid all this money. And then I'd gotten a divorce and half the money was already with my ex-wife. My instincts were telling me, 'This book is fucked. Just drop it.' But I didn't, because I thought, 'What if I have to give the money back?' "<ref name="newsie">{{cite news|last = Giles|first = Jeff|title = He's a Real Boy Wonder|work = [[Newsweek]]|date = April 10, 1995|page=76|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1995/04/09/he-s-a-real-boy-wonder.html |access-date=September 4, 2012}}</ref> "I used to go down to my office and fantasize about all the books I could write instead." Chabon has confessed to being "careless and sloppy" when it came to his novels' plots, saying how he "again and again falls back on the same basic story."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=D. G. |title=Michael Chabon's Imaginary Jews |journal=The Sewanee Review |date=2008 |volume=116 |issue=4 |pages=572–588 |doi=10.1353/sew.0.0074 |jstor=27550011|s2cid=162356370 }}</ref>

When he finally decided to abandon ''Fountain City'', Chabon recalls staring at his blank computer for hours before suddenly picturing "a straitlaced, troubled young man with a tendency toward melodrama, trying to end it all."<ref name="writing"/> He began writing, and within a couple of days had written 50 pages of what became his second novel, ''[[Wonder Boys]]''. Chabon drew on his own experiences with ''Fountain City'' for the character of Grady Tripp, a frustrated novelist who has spent years working on an immense fourth novel. He wrote ''Wonder Boys'' in a dizzy seven-month streak, without telling his agent or publisher he'd abandoned ''Fountain City''. The book, published in 1995, was a commercial and critical success.

In late 2010, "An annotated, four-chapter fragment"<ref name="theatlantic.com">[https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/12/michael-chabon-how-to-salvage-a-wrecked-novel/68665/ Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a 'Wrecked' Novel] December 29, 2010. Accessed September 4, 2012.</ref> from the unfinished 1,500 page ''Fountain City'' manuscript, "complete with cautionary introduction and postscript"<ref name="theatlantic.com"/> written by Chabon, was included in ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern#36|McSweeney's 36]]''.<ref name="theatlantic.com"/>

===''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay''===
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Among the supporters of ''Wonder Boys'' was ''[[The Washington Post]]'' critic [[Jonathan Yardley]]; however, despite declaring Chabon "the young star of American letters", Yardley argued that, in his works to that point, Chabon had been preoccupied "with fictional explorations of his own ... It is time for him to move on, to break away from the first person and explore larger worlds."<ref name="yardley">{{cite news |first= Jonathan |last= Yardley|author-link= Jonathan Yardley|title= The Paper Chase |work= The Washington Post Book World|date= March 19, 1995|page= 3}}</ref> Chabon later said that he took Yardley's criticism to heart, explaining, "It chimed with my own thoughts. I had bigger ambitions."<ref name="powell">{{cite news | url = http://www.powells.com/authors/chabon.html | year = 2000 | title = Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures | last = Weich | first = Dave | publisher = Powells.com | access-date = July 4, 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090705191850/http://www.powells.com/authors/chabon.html | archive-date = July 5, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> In 1999 he published his second collection of short stories, ''Werewolves in Their Youth'', which included his first published foray into [[genre fiction]],<ref name="eleanor"/> the grim horror story "In the Black Mill".

Shortly after completing ''Wonder Boys'', Chabon discovered a box of comic books from his childhood; a reawakened interest in comics, coupled with memories of the "lore" his [[Brooklyn]]-born father had told him about "the middle years of the twentieth century in America. ...the radio shows, politicians, movies, music, and athletes, and so forth, of that era," inspired him to begin work on a new novel.<ref name="boldty">{{cite web |last= Buchwald|first= Laura|title= A Conversation with Michael Chabon|url= http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1000/chabon/interview.html|year= 2000|work= Bold Type|publisher= RandomHouse.com|access-date=July 4, 2009}}</ref> In 2000, he published ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'', an epic [[historical fiction|historical novel]] that charts 16 years in the lives of Sammy Clay and Joe Kavalier, two Jewish cousins who create a wildly popular series of comic books in the early 1940s, the years leading up to the entry of the U.S. into World War II. The novel received "nearly unanimous praise" and became a [[New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' Best Seller]],<ref name="eintro"/> eventually winning the 2001 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]. Chabon reflected that, in writing ''Kavalier & Clay'', "I discovered strengths I had hoped that I possessed—the ability to pull off multiple points of view, historical settings, the passage of years—but which had never been tested before."<ref name="failb">{{cite web |title= Interview with Michael Chabon|url= http://failbetter.com/01/Chabon.htm|issue= Fall/Winter 2000 (Vol. 1, Issue 1)|work= failbetter.com |access-date=July 4, 2009}}</ref>

===''Summerland'', ''The Final Solution'', ''Gentlemen of the Road'', and ''The Yiddish Policemen's Union''===
[[File:Chabonsigning.jpg|right|thumb|Chabon at a book signing in 2006]]
In 2002, Chabon published ''[[Summerland (novel)|Summerland]]'', a fantasy novel written for younger readers that received mixed reviews but sold extremely well,<ref name="timberg">{{cite news |first= Scott|last= Timberg |title= The Idea Hit Him Right in the Kishkes|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-01-et-chabon1-story.html|work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date= May 1, 2007|access-date=July 2, 2009}}</ref> and won the 2003 [[Mythopoeic Awards|Mythopoeic Fantasy Award]]. Two years later, he published ''[[The Final Solution (novel)|The Final Solution]]'', a novella about an investigation led by an unknown old man, whom the reader can guess to be [[Sherlock Holmes]], during the final years of World War II. His [[Dark Horse Comics]] project ''[[The Escapist (character)|The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist]]'', a quarterly anthology series that was published from 2004 to 2006, purported to cull stories from an involved, fictitious 60-year history of the Escapist character created by the protagonists of ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay''. It was awarded the 2005 [[Eisner Award]] for [[Eisner Award for Best Anthology|Best Anthology]] and a pair of [[Harvey Awards]] for Best Anthology and Best New Series.

In late 2006, Chabon completed work on ''[[Gentlemen of the Road]]'', a 15-part serialized novel that ran in ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' from January 28 to May 6, 2007. The serial (which at one point had the working title "Jews with Swords") was described by Chabon as "a swashbuckling adventure story set around the year 1000."<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/1004chabon1004.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120720084644/http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/1004chabon1004.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 20, 2012 | date = October 4, 2006 | title = Author Mines Jewish History | last = Lengel | first = Kerry | work = [[The Arizona Republic]] | access-date = July 4, 2009 }}</ref> Just before ''Gentlemen of the Road'' completed its run, the author published his next novel, ''[[The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]'', which he had worked on since February 2002. A hard-boiled detective story that imagines an [[alternate history]] in which Israel collapsed in 1948 and European Jews settled in Alaska,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20080313|title=Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Michael Chabon|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|date=March 13, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210172614/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20080313|archive-date=February 10, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the novel was released on May 1, 2007, to enthusiastic reviews,<ref>{{cite web |title= The Yiddish Policemen's Union|url= https://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/chabonmichael/yiddishpolicemensunion?q=chabon|date= c. 2009|work= [[Metacritic]]|publisher= CBS Interactive, Inc.|access-date=July 4, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224358/http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/chabonmichael/yiddishpolicemensunion?q=chabon |archive-date = September 26, 2007}}</ref> and spent six weeks on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list.<ref>{{cite news |title= Hardcover Fiction|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/bestseller/0701besthardfiction.html?ex=1184558400&en=a23329f3343df505&ei=5070|date= July 1, 2007|work= [[The New York Times]] |access-date=July 4, 2009}}</ref> The novel also won the 2008 [[Hugo Award]].

===''Manhood for Amateurs'' and ''Telegraph Avenue''===
In May 2007, Chabon said that he was working on a young-adult novel with "some fantastic content."<ref name="kirsch">{{cite magazine | url = https://ew.com/article/2007/05/09/michael-chabon-translates-genres-yiddish/ |date = May 4, 2007 | title = The New Adventures of Michael Chabon | last = Kirschling | first = Gregory |magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]] | access-date = July 4, 2009}}</ref> A month later, the author said he had put plans for the young-adult book on hold,<ref>{{cite web|last=Raymond |first=Nate |title=More Details on Non-fiction Book |url=http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?p=56 |date=June 5, 2007 |work=The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay |access-date=July 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718182524/http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?p=56 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> and instead had signed a two-book deal with [[HarperCollins]].

The first, a book-length work of non-fiction called ''[[Manhood for Amateurs|Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son]]'', was published in spring 2009 (2010 in Europe); the work discusses "being a man in all its complexity—a son, a father, a husband."<ref>{{cite web
 |last=Thornton 
 |first=Matthew 
 |title=Chabon Signs Again with HC 
 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6448371.html 
 |date=June 1, 2007 
 |work=PW Daily 
 |publisher=[[Publishers Weekly]] 
 |access-date=July 2, 2009 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703170010/http://publishersweekly.com/article/CA6448371.html 
 |archive-date=July 3, 2008 
 |url-status=live 
 |df=mdy 
}}</ref> The collection was nominated for a 2010 Northern California Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/RVPK1CB26T.DTL | title=2010 Northern California Book Award Nominees | date=March 7, 2010 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>  This was Chabon's second published collection of essays and non-fiction. [[McSweeney's]] published ''[[Maps and Legends]]'', a collection of Chabon's literary essays, on May 1, 2008.<ref>{{cite book |title= Maps and Legends (Hardcover)|date= c. 2009|isbn= 978-1932416893|last1= Chabon|first1= Michael|publisher= McSweeney's Books}}</ref> Proceeds from the book benefited [[826 National]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Michael Chabon's New Book Benefits 826 National!|url= http://www.826national.org/article/118/michael-chabons-new-book-benefits-826-national|date= May 20, 2008|publisher= [[826 National]]|access-date= July 2, 2009|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090530154545/http://www.826national.org/article/118/michael-chabons-new-book-benefits-826-national|archive-date= May 30, 2009|df= mdy-all}}</ref> Also in 2008, Chabon received the [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]],  presented annually by the [[Tulsa City-County Library|Tulsa (Oklahoma) Library Trust]].

During a 2007 interview with the ''Washington Post'', Chabon discussed his second book under the contract, saying, "I would like it to be set in the present day and feel right now the urge to do something more mainstream than my recent work has been." During a Q&A session in January 2009, Chabon added that he was writing a "naturalistic" novel about two families in Berkeley.<ref>{{cite news|last=Raymond |first=Nate |title=Current Projects: Untitled Bay Area Novel |work=The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay |date=n.d. |url=http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?page_id=10 |access-date=September 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426022639/http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/?page_id=10 |archive-date=April 26, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref> In a March 2010 interview with the ''Guardian'' newspaper, Chabon added that "So far there's no overtly genre content: it's set in the present day and has no alternate reality or anything like that."<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/>

''[[Telegraph Avenue (novel)|Telegraph Avenue]]'', adapted from an idea for a TV series pilot that Chabon was asked to write in 1999, is a [[social novel]] set on the borders between Oakland and Berkeley in the summer of 2004 that sees a "large cast of characters grapple with infidelity, fatherhood, crooked politicians, racism, nostalgia and buried secrets."<ref name="sfgate.com">{{cite news|first=Meredith |last=May |url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Michael-Chabon-talks-of-Telegraph-Avenue-3848065.php |title=Michael Chabon talks of 'Telegraph Avenue' |newspaper=SFGate |date=September 7, 2012 |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref> Chabon said upon publication in an interview with the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' that the novel concerns "the possibility and impossibility of creating shared community spaces that attempt to transcend the limits imposed on us by our backgrounds, heritage and history."<ref name="sfgate.com"/> Five years in gestation, ''Telegraph Avenue'' had a difficult birth, Chabon telling the ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' newspaper, "I got two years into the novel and got completely stymied and felt like it was an utter flop.... I had to start all over again, keeping the characters but reinventing the story completely and leaving behind almost every element."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/09/michael-chabon-telegraph-avenue-interview | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Killian | last=Fox | title=Michael Chabon: 'Two years into writing this I felt like it was an utter flop' | date=September 9, 2012}}</ref> After starting out with literary realism with his first two novels and moving into genre-fiction experiments from ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' onward, Chabon feels that ''Telegraph Avenue'' is a significant "unification" of his earlier and later styles, declaring in an interview, "I could do whatever I wanted to do in this book and it would be OK even if it verged on crime fiction, even if it verged on magic realism, even if it verged on martial arts fiction.... I was open to all of that and yet I didn't have to repudiate or steer away from the naturalistic story about two families living their everyday lives and coping with pregnancy and birth and adultery and business failure and all the issues that might go into making a novel written in the genre of mainstream quote-unquote realistic fiction, that that was another genre for me now and I felt free to mix them all in a sense."<ref>{{cite news |last= Talbott|first= Chris |title= Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue'|url=https://www.boston.com/ae/music/2012/12/13/chabon-ties-all-together-telegraph-avenue/Y5S9oJHbsC8fllU1CigndM/story.html|date= December 13, 2012 |work= Boston Globe|access-date=October 13, 2013
}}</ref> The novel has been optioned by film producer [[Scott Rudin]] (who previously optioned and produced ''[[Wonder Boys]]''), and [[Cameron Crowe]] is adapting the novel into a screenplay, according to Chabon.<ref name="sfgate.com"/>

In a public lecture and reading of the novel in Oakland, California, Chabon listed creative influences as broad as [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Robert Altman]], and [[William Faulkner]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Shoshone|title=Michael Chabon Plays God|url=http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/10/michael-chabon-plays-god-video/|newspaper=Oakland Local|access-date=December 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814115224/http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/10/michael-chabon-plays-god-video/|archive-date=August 14, 2018|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===''Moonglow'', ''Pops'', ''Bookends'', and current work===
Chabon's latest novel, ''Moonglow'', was published November 22, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chabon |first=Michael |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062225559/moonglow |title=Moonglow - Michael Chabon - Hardcover |publisher=Harpercollins.com |date=2016-11-22 |access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref> The novel is a quasi-metafictional memoir, based upon the deathbed confessions of Chabon's grandfather in the late 1980s.

Chabon followed-up ''Moonglow'' in summer 2017 with the edited collection ''Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation'', a non-fiction collection of essays by writers concerning the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, featuring contributions from writers including Dave Eggers, Colum McCann, and Geraldine Brooks. Chabon co-edited the volume with Ayelet Waldman, and they both contributed essays to the collection.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chabon |first=Michael |url=http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008229207/kingdom-of-olives-and-ash-writers-confront-the-occupation/#sm.000da708s11aldi0slg1l9updua33 |title=Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation &#124; Harper Collins Australia |publisher=Harpercollins.com.au |access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref> Chabon had previously weighed in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2010, having written an op-ed piece for the ''New York Times'' in June 2010 in which he noted the role of exceptionalism in Jewish identity, in relation to the "blockheadedness" of Israel's botching of the [[Gaza flotilla raid]] and the explanations that followed.<ref>{{Cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/opinion/06chabon.html?pagewanted=1|title= Chosen, but Not Special|author= Chabon, Michael|date= June 5, 2010|work= The New York Times |access-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref>

''Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces'' was published in May 2018. ''Pops'' is a short non-fiction memoir/essay collection, the essays thematically linked by the rewards and challenges of various aspects of fatherhood and family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062834621/pops|title=Pops - Michael Chabon - Hardcover|first=Michael|last=Chabon|website=HarperCollins US|access-date=March 16, 2018}}</ref>

Chabon's next non-fiction book, ''Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros'', was published in January 2019. This volume is a collections of introductions, afterwords, and liner notes that Chabon has contributed over the years to various books and other projects, also exploring Chabon's own literary influences and ideas about writing and reading.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062851291/bookends/|title = Bookends}}</ref> The book serves as a fundraiser for [[the MacDowell Colony|MacDowell]], to which Chabon is contributing all royalties.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

In an interview with the American Booksellers Association promoting ''Moonglow'' in November 2016, Chabon stated that his next fiction project would be "...a long overdue follow-up—but not a sequel—to ''Summerland'', my book for a somewhat younger readership. It's something I've been trying to get around to for a long time."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookweb.org/news/qa-michael-chabon-author-december%E2%80%99s-1-indie-next-list-pick-34962 |title=A Q&A With Michael Chabon, Author of December's #1 Indie Next List Pick &#124; American Booksellers Association |publisher=Bookweb.org |date=2016-11-15 |access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref>

Despite his success, Chabon continues to perceive himself as a "failure", noting that "anyone who has ever received a bad review knows how it outlasts, by decades, the memory of a favorable word."<ref>''Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son,'' by Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, 2009. p. 7</ref>

===Amazon vs. Hachette controversy===
In 2014, [[Amazon.com]], a leading book distributor, was in a dispute with [[Hachette Book Group USA|Hachette]], a publisher.  Hundreds of authors, Chabon included, condemned Amazon in an open letter because Amazon stopped taking pre-orders for books published by Hachette.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2014/08/07/hundreds-of-authors-condemn-amazon-in-open-letter/|title=Hundreds of authors condemn Amazon in open letter|work=Bookmarks}}</ref>

===Personal life===
After the publication of ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'', Chabon was mistakenly featured in a ''[[Newsweek]]'' article on up-and-coming gay writers (''Pittsburgh''{{'}}s protagonist has liaisons with people of both sexes). ''[[The New York Times]]'' later reported that "in some ways, [Chabon] was happy" for the magazine's error, and quoted him as saying, "I feel very lucky about all of that. It really opened up a new readership to me, and a very loyal one."<ref name="buzbee"/> In a 2002 interview, Chabon added, "If ''Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' is about anything in terms of human sexuality and identity, it's that people can't be put into categories all that easily."<ref name="Metro Weekly">{{cite news|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=270|title=Blurring the Lines: Interview with Michael Chabon|last = Bugg |first = Sean|work=[[Metro Weekly]]|date=March 14, 2002|access-date = July 4, 2009}}</ref> In "On ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh''", an essay he wrote for the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' in 2005, Chabon remarked on the autobiographical events that helped inspire his first novel: "I had slept with one man whom I loved, and learned to love another man so much that it would never have occurred to me to want to sleep with him."<ref>{{cite journal |last= Chabon|first= Michael |date= June 9, 2005|title= On 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'|journal=[[The New York Review of Books]]|volume= 52|issue= 10|page= 43}}</ref>

In 1987, Chabon married the poet Lollie Groth. According to Chabon, the popularity of ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' had adverse effects; he later explained, "I was married at the time to someone else who was also a struggling writer, and the success created a gross imbalance in our careers, which was problematic."<ref name="rolling"/> He and Groth divorced in 1991.

He married the [[Israel]]i-born writer [[Ayelet Waldman]] in 1993. They live together in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], California, with their four children.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-oct-05-ca-ybarra5-story.html |date = October 5, 2003 | title = Taking on the Law|first = Michael J. |last = Ybarra|work = [[The Los Angeles Times]] | access-date = July 2, 2009}}</ref> Chabon has said that the "creative free-flow" he has with Waldman inspired the relationship between Sammy Clay and Rosa Saks toward the end of ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'',<ref name="boldty"/> and in 2007, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' declared the couple "a famous—and famously in love—writing pair, like [[Nick and Nora Charles]] with word processors and not so much booze."<ref name="kirsch"/>
	
In a 2012 interview with [[Guy Raz]] of ''[[Weekend All Things Considered]]'', Chabon said that he writes from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. each day, Sunday through Thursday.<ref name="npr">{{cite web |url= http://m.npr.org/news/Books/160553028?page=5|title= Michael Chabon Journeys Back To 'Telegraph Avenue'|date= September 9, 2012|publisher= NPR|access-date=October 26, 2012}}</ref> He tries to write 1,000 words a day. Commenting on the rigidity of his routine, Chabon said, "There have been plenty of self-destructive rebel-angel novelists over the years, but writing is about getting your work done and getting your work done every day. If you want to write novels, they take a long time, and they're big, and they have a lot of words in them.... The best environment, at least for me, is a very stable, structured kind of life."<ref name="rolling"/>

Chabon was a vocal endorser of Barack Obama during his 2008 election campaign,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/michael-chabon-gives-hims_b_80807.html|title=Michael Chabon Gives Himself Permission to Support Barack Obama|first=Mayhill|last=Fowler|date=January 10, 2008|website=huffingtonpost.com|access-date=March 16, 2018}}</ref> and wrote an enthusiastic opinion piece on Obama for the ''New York Review of Books'', titled "Obama & the Conquest of Denver", in October 2008.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/10/09/obama-the-conquest-of-denver/|title=Obama & the Conquest of Denver|first=Michael|last=Chabon|journal=The New York Review of Books |date=October 9, 2008|volume=55 |issue=15 |access-date=March 16, 2018|via=www.nybooks.com}}</ref> Subsequently, Chabon included a brief, fictionalized 'cameo' by Obama in his 2012 novel ''[[Telegraph Avenue (novel)|Telegraph Avenue]]''.

Since 2016, Chabon has been an outspoken critic of [[Donald Trump]], both during his [[2016 US election|campaign for the presidency]] (signing a petition with over 400 other writers against his candidacy in May 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/25/stephen-king-joins-hundreds-of-authors-petitioning-against-donald-trump-colm-toibin-lydia-davis|title=Stephen King joins hundreds of authors petitioning against Donald Trump|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=May 25, 2016|website=the Guardian|access-date=March 16, 2018}}</ref>), and during his administration. During an interview with ''[[The Guardian Newspaper|The Guardian]]'' before Trump's inauguration in January 2017, Chabon remarked of the incoming president, "I really have no idea what to expect. He's so unpredictable. He's so mercurial. You know, I would be no more surprised if he stood up there and declared amnesty for all illegal immigrants to the United States than if he said he was going to take them all out to be shot. He's like a random impulse generator."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/27/michael-chabon-interview-books|title=Michael Chabon: 'Trump is like a random impulse generator'|first=Alex|last=Clark|date=January 27, 2017|website=the Guardian|access-date=March 16, 2018}}</ref> In a 2017 radio interview, Chabon spoke of Trump: "Every morning I wake up and in the seconds before I turn my phone on to see what the latest news is, I have this boundless sense of optimism and hope that this is the day that he's going to have a massive stroke, and, you know, be carted out of the White House on a gurney."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/22/michael-chabon-pulitzer-winner-says-he-wakes-up-ev/|title=Michael Chabon, Pulitzer winner, says he wakes up 'every day' hoping Trump suffers 'massive stroke'|first=Jessica|last=Chasmar|date=June 22, 2017|website=washingtontimes.com|access-date=March 16, 2018|archive-date=October 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026143905/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/22/michael-chabon-pulitzer-winner-says-he-wakes-up-ev/|url-status=dead}}</ref>