History Creator / MichaelChabon

** Aside from that, Chabon (who is Jewish) loves Jewish history and culture. It figures prominently in most of his books.

** ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'' - Reconstructs [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superhero stories by telling a story from the POV of the men who wrote them, showing how important they are to American culture.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Yiddish creeps into many of his stories featuring Ashkenazi Jews.

* ''The Final Solution'' - A mystery novella starring an unnamed elderly detective who might be (read: obviously is) Franchise/SherlockHolmes.

* ''Wonder Boys'' - Made into a movie starring Creator/MichaelDouglas and Creator/TobeyMaguire. The screenplay was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward.

He also worked on the screenplays for ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/JohnCarter'' and the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' ''Short Treks'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryShortTreksE02Calypso Calypso]]". He was the showrunner during Season 1 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard''.

** This is likely the reason he writes so much "low-brow" genre fiction; he likes to write in genres that he genuinely ''enjoys'' reading.

* ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' - A ComingOfAge novel that explored a bisexual LoveTriangle.

* {{Reconstruction}}: He's one of the most respected writers in America, yet many of his books take on subjects usually seen as meaningless pop culture, as if to prove that they ''can'' have literary merit if done right.

* BiTheWay: Both many of the characters in his books and the man himself.

He also worked on the screenplays for ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/JohnCarter'' and the episode Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryShortTreksE02Calypso.

* ''Gentlemen of the Road'' - A more traditional adventure novel. Chabon himself dubbed it "Jews with swords".

** This is likely the reason he writes so much "low-brow" genre fiction: he likes to write in genres that he genuinely ''enjoys'' reading.

* BigApplesauce

* ShownTheirWork: He does lots of research for every novel he writes, whether it be [[Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay 30’s New York]] or [[Literature/TheMysteriesOfPittsburgh Pittsburgh of the 80’s]]. ''And it shows.''
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Probably the main reason he wrote ''Awesome Man''

** ''Literature/{{Summerland}}'' - Reconstructs adolescent HighFantasy like ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' by giving it a fresh setting -- in this case, a fantasy-world based on American culture and folklore.

He also worked on the screenplays for ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and ''Film/JohnCarter''.

* ''Moonglow'' - A semi-fictionalized memoir of Chabon's dying grandfather, a WW2 veteran, engineer and rocket enthusiast.

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American writer of both [[LitFic literary]] and genre fiction. He has achieved the unprecedented goal of appealing to both literary snobs who despise genre fiction, and genre fiction snobs who despise the literati. Sometimes even at the same time. He has won both a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and a UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best ScienceFiction Novel of the Year.

** In ''Literature/WonderBoys'', the Warshaw family has three children adopted from Korea, all of whom are relatively observant Jews.

** ''Gentlemen Of The Road'' - Reconstructs TwoFistedTales and pulp adventure stories.

** ''Literature/{{Summerland}}'' - Reconstructs adolescent HighFantasy like ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' by giving it a fresh setting -- in this case, a fantasy-world based on American culture and folklore.

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Ashkenazi Jews appear in most of his works, although they are not the only ones. In fact, there is a running theme that the non-Ashkenazim characters are usually more faithfully observant:
** He set out to turn this trope on its head with ''Literature/GentlemenOfTheRoad'', which prominently features an Abyssinian Jew and the Khazars, a kingdom of Turkic Jews. It does, however, feature an Ashkenazi Jew who is very far from home.
** ''The Yiddish Policemen's Union'' is a notable straight example, envisioning an alternate universe in which Israel was a non-starter and instead a Jewish free state was formed by Ashkenazi Jews in Alaska. Even they are balanced by Berko Shemets, who is a half-Tligit (Alaskan native) convert and one of the most religious characters in the novel.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Yiddish creeps into many of his stories fearuring Ashkenazi Jews.

* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Probably the main reason he wrote ''Awesome Man''.

Michael Chabon is an American writer of both [[LitFic literary]] and genre fiction. He has achieved the unprecedented goal of appealing to both literary snobs who despise genre fiction, and genre fiction snobs who despise the literati. Sometimes even at the same time. He has won both a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and a UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best ScienceFiction Novel of the Year.

Michael Chabon is an American writer of both [[LitFic literary]] and genre fiction. He has achieved the unprecedented goal of appealing to both literary snobs who despise genre fiction, and genre fiction snobs who despise the literati. Sometimes even at the same time. He has won both a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and a HugoAward for best ScienceFiction Novel of the Year.

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: He set out to turn this trope on its head with ''Literature/GentlemenOfTheRoad'', which prominently features an Abyssinian Jew and the Khazars, a kingdom of Turkic Jews. It does, however, feature an Ashkenazi Jew who is very far from home.

** Among other things, ''GentlemenOfTheRoad'' is also a homage to Creator/FritzLeiber's Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser tales.
* {{Reconstruction}}: ''Gentlemen Of The Road'' - Reconstructs TwoFistedTales and pulp adventure stories.
* PurpleProse: ''Gentlemen of the Road'' is a particularly thick example.

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Ashkenazi Jews appear in most of his works, although they are not the only ones. In fact, there is a running theme that the non-Ashkenazim characters are usually more faithfully observant:
** He set out to turn this trope on its head with ''Literature/GentlemenOfTheRoad'', which prominently features an Abyssinian Jew and the Khazars, a kingdom of Turkic Jews. It does, however, feature an Ashkenazi Jew who is very far from home.

* BiTheWay
* BigApplesauce
* {{Reconstruction}}: He's one of the most respected writers in America, yet many of his books take on subjects usually seen as meaningless pop culture, as if to prove that they ''can'' have literary merit if done right.
** ''Gentlemen Of The Road'' - Reconstructs TwoFistedTales and pulp adventure stories.
* GenreThrowback: Frequently does this in literary form (see {{Reconstruction}}).
* PurpleProse: Is known for this. ''Gentlemen of the Road'' is a particularly thick example.

* ShownTheirWork: He does lots of research for every novel he writes. ''And it shows.''
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Yiddish creeps into many of his stories fearuring Ashkenazi Jews.

** ''The Yiddish Policemen's Union'' is a notable straight example, envisioning an alternate universe in which Israel was a non-starter and instead a Jewish free state was formed by Ashkenazi Jews in Alaska. Even they are balanced by Berko Shemets, who is a half-Tligit (Alaskan native) convert and one of the most religious characters in the novel.
** And in ''Literature/WonderBoys'', the Warshaw family has three children adopted from Korea, all of whom are relatively observant Jews.
* AlternateHistory

* DisappearedDad / MissingMom: Frequently. Art Bechstein's mom in ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfPittsburgh'', Sammy Clay's dad in ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'', Ethan Feld's mom in ''Literature/{{Summerland}}'', Meyer Landsman's dad in ''Literature/TheYiddishPolicemensUnion'', etc.
* {{Fanfic}}: ''The Final Solution'' is essentially this for the SherlockHolmes stories
* NoNameGiven: The protagonist of ''The Final Solution'', deliberately done to conceal the fact that he's really SherlockHolmes

** ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'' - Reconstructs [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] superhero stories by telling a story from the POV of the men who wrote them, showing how important they are to American culture.
** ''Literature/{{Summerland}}'' - Reconstructs adolescent HighFantasy like ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' by giving it a fresh setting -- in this case, a fantasy-world based on American culture and folklore.

** ''Literature/TheYiddishPolicemensUnion'' - Reconstructs traditional FilmNoir and HardboiledDetective stories, again, by giving it a fresh setting -- an AlternateHistory version of America where a thriving Yiddish culture exists on the Alaskan frontier.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to TheOtherWiki, he was involved in pitching story ideas for the ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' and ''Film/FantasticFour'' movies, but all of his ideas were rejected. And he once pitched an original screenplay that he described as a RomanticComedy "about old Jewish folks on a third-rate cruise ship out of Miami", but the producer that he was working with decided not to take it.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Yiddish creeps into many of his stories fearuring Ashkenazi Jews. ''The Yiddish Policemen's Union'' features Yiddish puns.

* ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfPittsburgh'' - A ComingOfAge novel that explored a bisexual LoveTriangle.
* ''Literature/WonderBoys'' - Made into a movie starring MichaelDouglas and Creator/TobeyMaguire. The screenplay was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward.
* ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'' - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This was not, technically, a genre novel, but it was about UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, about as geeky a subject as one could want.
* ''Literature/{{Summerland}}'' - Best-selling YA fantasy novel about kids saving the world by playing baseball.
* ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'' - A mystery novella starring an unnamed elderly detective who might be (read: obviously is) SherlockHolmes.
* ''Literature/TheYiddishPolicemensUnion'' - An AlternateHistory noir novel set in Alaska. Winner of the HugoAward.

!! Other works by Michael Chabon:
* ''Literature/GentlemenOfTheRoad'' - A more traditional adventure novel. Chabon himself dubbed it "Jews with swords".
* ''Manhood for Amateurs'' - A collection of autobiographical essays.
* ''The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man'' - A children's book about the titular superhero (yes, really).
* ''Literature/TelegraphAvenue'' - A novel about record-store owners in north Oakland, threatened by a megastore.
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!!Tropes appearing in his works:

* ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'' - A mystery novella starring an unnamed elderly detective who is might be (read: obviously is) SherlockHolmes.