Chuck Palahniuk

Stephen Van-Hagen (University of Coventry)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 21 Feb 1962
Activity 1996-ongoing

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Journalist
Novelist
Satirist

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Charles Michael “Chuck” Palahniuk (pronounced “paul-ah-nik”) is one of the United States’ most successful contemporary novelists, whose books have made the

New York Times

Bestseller List on numerous occasions. He was born in Pasco, Washington on 21 February 1962. The second of the four children of Fred, a railroad brakeman, and Carol, an office manager at a nuclear power plant, Palahniuk is of French, Russian, and Ukrainian ancestry. He grew up with his parents and siblings in a mobile home in nearby Burbank, until his parents separated when he was fourteen. Thereafter, he grew accustomed to spending time on the cattle ranch of his maternal grandparents, and began volunteering in hospitals, with a view to attaining confirmation in the Catholic Church. He became a student at the…

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Citation: Van-Hagen, Stephen. "Chuck Palahniuk". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 February 2008; last revised 14 April 2020. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11915, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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