Literary Friendships: Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman

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February 16, 2005
Garrison Keillor - Host, Ayelet Waldman - Interviewee and Profiled Subject, Michael Chabon - Interviewee and Profiled Subject
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On this Literary Friendships event, host Garrison Keillor shares the stage with married writers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman who have ten novels and four children. 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.

Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and the novella The Final Solution: A Story of Detection.

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.

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