Ten Evenings

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon was born in 1963, in Washington, D.C. and raised mostly in Columbia, a planned city with utopian aspirations in the Maryland tobacco country. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, and has spent most of the past two decades in California, with brief sojourns in Washington State, Florida, and New York State. Since 1997, he has been living with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a writer, and their children, in Berkeley.

Michael Chabon’s first novelThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was originally written for his master’s thesis at U.C. Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller. Chabon’s second novel, Wonder Boys, was also a bestseller, and was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. Michael Chabon believes that three things are required for success as a novelist: talent, luck, and discipline. As he says, “Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.” Chabon’s hope and trust certainly paid off.

BOOKS

More information on where and when to purchase a copy of Michael Chabon’s upcoming book will be made available as soon as possible. To purchase other titles by Michael Chabon, visit White Whale Bookstore.

WHEN

Monday, May 11, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. ET

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WHERE

Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland)
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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