Chabon won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Literature (fiction) for his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Chabon just finished adapting his incredible novel, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay', into a screenplay. It took eight drafts. American novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer, the son of a pediatrician and a lawyer, he grew up in Columbia, Maryland. Has four children with wife Ayelet Waldman: Sophie, Ezekiel Napoleon (Zeke), Ida-Rose, and Abraham. Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 73-79. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.