Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman - Literary Friendships
February 16, 2005 - Dsicussion held Wednesday, February 16th, 2005. Married writers with ten novels and four children. Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and most recently, the novella "The Final Solution: A Story of Detection." He is at work on a thriller set in an imaginary world inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's short-lived plan during WWII to create a Jewish homeland in Alaska. Ayelet Waldman is a public defender-turned-novelist and has published five detective thrillers in the "Mommy-Track" mystery series. She is also author of the novel "Daughter's Keeper. "Chabon and Waldman met on a blind date eleven years ago and were engaged to be married three weeks later. He writes at night; she writes during the day. They live in California with their four young children.