Chabon married the novelist Ayelet Waldman in 1993, and the couple has four children. Aside from narrative fiction, Chabon has worked as a screenwriter, helping with adaptations of his work and with movie projects such as Spider-Man 2. He has also contributed essays to magazines such as Harper’s and the New Yorker. An outspoken proponent of genre fiction, Chabon published Maps and Legends, a collection of critical essays defending literature as a vehicle for entertainment, in 2008.
Chabon lives in Berkeley, California.
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The stories in this work originally appeared in Esquire, GQ, Harpers, The New Yorker, and Playboy. “Spikes” was originally published in Save Our Strength.
copyright © 1999 by Michael Chabon
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