Michael Chabon

Born 24 May 1963

From Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25.

Quotes

“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.”
The Recipe for Life, The Washington Book World 2000
“Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”
Maps and Legends, Architectural Digest April 2001
“The presence of evil, once scented, tends to bring out all that is most irrational and uncontrollable in the public imagination. It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria.”
The God of Dark Laughter, The New Yorker April 9, 2001
“Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.”
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Chapter 16
“Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.”
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Chapter 23

Books by Michael Chabon in order

Books by Michael Chabon in the order they were published, from The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) to Fight of the Century (2020).