Michael Chabon is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) and the Nebula Award for The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007). His most recent novel, Manhood for Amateurs has won critics' acclaim.

"Chabon brings to his autobiographical essays the same things that have made his works of fiction among the most celebrated of the past 20 years — a natural affinity for storytelling; a deep sense of nostalgia; unapologetic celebration of his many geeky, guilty pleasures; sly, often devastating humor; unbending honesty — while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of self-aggrandizement, cynicism, shallow epiphany and self-pity." Marc Covert, the Oregonian