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Dan Chaon
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born
June 11, 1964
gender
male
place of birth
Omaha, Nebraska, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories
member since
February 2007
about this author
Dan Chaon is the author of Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delan...more
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon , Jim Shepard, Elmore Leonard, Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) , Michael Crichton, Nick Hornby, Laurie R. King (Goodreads author) more... avg rating 3.53 — 898 ratings — published 2003 4 editions |
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You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.52 — 709 ratings — published 2004 9 editions |
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Await Your Reply: A Novel by Dan Chaon (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.79 — 448 ratings — published 2009 5 editions |
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Among the Missing by Dan Chaon (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.17 — 356 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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Fitting Ends by Dan Chaon (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.97 — 90 ratings — published 1995 3 editions |
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Parmi les disparus by Dan Chaon (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002 |
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Chaos und Ordnung. by Dan Chaon (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1996 |
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Dan Chaon on tour for the book "You Remind Me of Me: A Novel"
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 07:00PM
Reader's Row, 96 Library St. 44026, Hudson, OH, The United States
See Dan Chaon on tour promoting the book "You Remind Me of Me: A Novel"
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 07:00PM
Reader's Row, 96 Library St. 44026, Hudson, OH, The United States
See Dan Chaon on tour promoting the book "You Remind Me of Me: A Novel"
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"I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and jiggle my leg a lot. I read a lot, but at the same time I’m not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I’ll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text. There are even certain works that are very important to me (Like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, for example) that I probably haven’t ever read all the way through from beginning to end, just certain passages over and over. I tend to read at stuff, rather that through it, if that makes any sense, and maybe there’s something a little bit rodent-like about it, like a gerbil gnawing on woodchips in those, tiny, rapid obsessive bites."
— Dan Chaon
— Dan Chaon
"It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon. "
— Dan Chaon (Among the Missing)
— Dan Chaon (Among the Missing)
"What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and you were always winning things, the world offering them up with a big grin, like an emcee's: Here you go, Hollis. Here is a motorcycle. Here is a little boy who loves you. Here is a weird experience, here is something bad that you should mull over because it will make you a better person. What if you could think that life was this free vacation you'd won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?"
— Dan Chaon (Among the Missing)
— Dan Chaon (Among the Missing)
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