Michael Chabon — writer with roots in the Russian Empire
Michael Chabon is an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) — a sweeping novel about Jewish immigrant comic book creators in New York. His other novels — The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen's Union — have made him one of America's most celebrated literary voices.
Tracing the roots — Lithuania / Russia
His family has Lithuanian and Russian Jewish ancestry — his grandparents part of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora that settled in America. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — his greatest work — is explicitly about the creative energy of Jewish immigrants transforming American culture, drawing directly on his own family's heritage.
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Lithuania / Russia. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The best novels are the ones that tell you what you already know but couldn't find the words for."