Дэн Чаон: Американский писатель и его творчество

American writer

Dan Chaon (born June 11, 1964) is an American writer. Formerly a creative writing professor, he is the author of three short story collections and four novels.

Chaon has written four novels and three short story collections. His stories have appeared in numerous journals, and in anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. His first collection was Fitting Ends and Other Stories, published in 1996. Chaon's second collection of short stories, Among the Missing, was published in 2001. It was named as one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association, and as a notable book of the year by The New York Times. His first novel, You Remind Me of Me, was published in 2004. A second novel, Await Your Reply, was published in 2009. His third short story collection, Stay Awake, published in 2012, was a finalist for The Story Prize. Chaon's third novel, Ill Will, published in 2017, was named one of the best books of the year by publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. It was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, Locus Award, and International Thriller Writers Award. In 2022, Chaon published his fourth novel, Sleepwalk. He read from it on Storybound (podcast). Reviewing it for The New York Times Book Review, Joshua Ferris described the book as a "comic departure from the straightforward darkness of recent Chaon." He wrote that the book's plot was "Pynchonian" and "baroque", adding that "What prevails above the plot is the voice, which is consistently winning and — odd for so bloody a tale — unfailingly warm."

"The Story of My Imposters" was published in The Atlantic.

Chaon lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. or on June 4, 1989. The two met when he was a nineteen year old undergraduate student at Northwestern, and she was his thirty year old writing professor. They were married for twenty years until her death of ovarian cancer in November 2008. They have two sons, Philip Chaon and Paul Chaon.

“Fitting Ends,” in Best American Short Stories 1996, ed. John Edgar Wideman and Katrina Kenison (1996)
“The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom,” in The Pushcart Prize 24: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (2000)
“Big Me,” in 2001 O. Henry Prize Stories [second place story], ed. Larry Dark (2001)
"Seven Types of Ambiguity," in The Pushcart Prize 26: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (2002)
“I Demand to Know Where You’re Taking Me,” in The Pushcart Prize 27: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (2003)
"The Bees," in Best American Short Stories 2003, ed. John Edgar Wideman and Katrina Kenison (2003)
"Shepherdess," in The Pushcart Prize 32: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (2008)
"Little America," in Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, ed. Sam Weller & Mort Castle (2012)
(Of these eight stories, the first was included in *Fitting Ends and Other Stories; the second, third, and fifth in Among the Missing; and the sixth and seventh in Stay Awake.)