Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25. He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His 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 the same year. In 2012, Chabon published Telegraph Avenue, billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. He followed Telegraph Avenue in November 2016 with his latest novel, Moonglow, a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989. Chabon's work is characterized by complex language, and the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes such as nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials. Chabon (pronounced, in his words, "Shea as in Shea Stadium, Bon as in Bon Jovi", i.e., /ˈʃeɪbɒn/) was born in Washington, D.C., to a 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." Referring to popular culture, he wrote of being raised "on a hearty diet of crap". His parents divorced when he was 11, and he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and 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." 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." He grew up hearing Yiddish spoken by his mother's parents and siblings. ... Source: Article "Michael Chabon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Michael Chabon, né le 24 mai 1963 à Washington DC aux États-Unis, est un écrivain, essayiste et scénariste américain. Michael Chabon a grandi à Columbia (Maryland) dans une famille juive, et est diplômé en art à l'université de Pittsburgh et en «écriture créative» à l'université de Californie à Irvine. Ses parents se séparent alors qu'il n'a que sept ans, et de fait, les thèmes du divorce et de la monoparentalité sont profondément ancrés dans ses obsessions d'écrivain. De la même manière, citoyen américain, il est de religion juive et le judaïsme est ainsi au centre de nombre de ses écrits (Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier et Clay notamment, qui traite très indirectement de la Shoah). Enfin, la présence de personnages homosexuels (notamment les deux personnages principaux des Mystères de Pittsburgh) ont amené de nombreux journalistes à s'interroger sur son orientation sexuelle. Dans une réédition des Mystères de Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon a déclaré qu'il avait effectivement eu par le passé de telles relations. Pourtant il vit aujourd'hui avec sa femme Ayelet Waldman - elle-même écrivaine - et leurs quatre enfants, à Berkeley (Californie, États-Unis). Michael Chabon collabore depuis quelques années avec le monde du cinéma. Un de ses romans, Des garçons épatants, a déjà été adapté pour l'écran en 2000 par le scénariste Steve Kloves, et réalisé par Curtis Hanson, sous le titre Wonder Boys. Michael Chabon a participé directement à l'écriture de Spider-Man 2 (2004), dont environ un tiers de l'histoire serait de son ressort. Enfin, il a lui-même adapté Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier et Clay pour le grand écran mais le projet n'a pas dépassé le stade de la pré-production. En 2009, il a révisé le script du film John Carter écrit par Andrew Stanton et Mark Andrews. Le personnage de «l'Artiste de l'évasion» super héros de bande dessinée créé par Kavalier et Clay dans Les Extraordinaires Aventures de Kavalier et Clay, a donné lieu à la création de véritables bandes dessinées narrant ses aventures. Celles-ci ont reçu de nombreux prix aux États-Unis, notamment un prix Eisner de la meilleure anthologie en 2005. Il est marié avec l'écrivaine Ayelet Waldman avec qui il a édité l'ouvrage collectif Un royaume d'olives et de cendres paru en 2017. Les bénéfices du livre vont à une association non gouvernementale Breaking the Silence. Source: Article "Michael Chabon" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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CreatorCreatorStar Trek: PicardTV73% · 1,603
ProductionExecutive ProducerStar Trek: PicardTV20 Episodes73% · 1,603
WritingScreenstorySpider-Man 273% · 14,541
StoryStar Trek: PicardTV2 Episodes73% · 1,603
Star Trek: DiscoveryTV71% · 1,633
TeleplayStar Trek: PicardTV2 Episodes73% · 1,603
Star Trek: DiscoveryTV71% · 1,633
WriterStar Trek: PicardTV8 Episodes73% · 1,603
Star Trek: DiscoveryTV71% · 1,633
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