{"key": "/authors/OL32884A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "links": [{"title": "Univ. of Pittsburgh", "url": "http://www.225.pitt.edu/story/michael-chabon-pitt%27s-wonder-boy", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "birth_date": "24 May 1963", "source_records": ["ia:gentlemenofroad0000chab_z1o7", "bwb:9781936365692", "ia:leclubdespolicie0000chab", "amazon:0062819720", "bwb:9780008229207", "amazon:8499081398", "amazon:8416673659", "amazon:8433906836", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.11.20150123.full.mrc:680654779:768", "bwb:9781857023619", "ia:liang.2036.amazingadventure0000unse_d5d0", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_067.bib.mrc:168882815:2585", "ia:superherous0000andr", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2025-11-17:KW-221-132"], "photos": [7400660], "bio": "Michael Chabon is an American author. Chabon's first novel, *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with a second novel, *Wonder Boys* (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,* a novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.\r\n\r\nHis novel *The Yiddish Policemen's Union,* an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel *Gentlemen of the Road* appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. His novel *Telegraph Avenue,* published in 2012 and billed as \"a twenty-first century Middlemarch,\" concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004.\r\n\r\nSource: Wikipedia", "name": "Michael Chabon", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "49255278", "wikidata": "Q313466", "isni": "0000000121319326", "bookbrainz": "b158cd3a-ecc3-4f68-9f2f-3ddee5aa6ddb", "musicbrainz": "a81bcdd9-dbac-428b-80d0-af5367c7ea55", "goodreads": "2715", "imdb": "nm0149290", "lc_naf": "n87915233", "librarything": "chabonmichael", "opac_sbn": "CFIV086025"}, "personal_name": "Michael Chabon", "alternate_names": ["M. Chabon"], "latest_revision": 23, "revision": 23, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-20T16:59:33.066505"}}