Michael Chabon - Berkeley Seminars In Modern Jewish Culture Lecture: In Conversation with Robert Alter

Thursday, March 18, 2010
7 p.m.
Wheeler Hall, Wheeler Auditorium (click link to view a campus map)

Speaker: Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Moderator: Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program


Michael Chabon is the author of the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He is also the author of two collections of short stories, a number-one bestselling young adult novel, Summerland, and a number of screenplays and teleplays. Chabon lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His newest book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, was published in 2009.