Chuck Palahniuk, an American writer with Ukrainian roots, has aroused genuine interest among critics and the public with his works over the years. His novels are criticized and loved, banned and nominated for prizes. But he remains true to himself and his writing style.
Biography
Chuck Palahniuk was born in the town of Pasco, Washington (USA) on February 21, 1962. But with his parents and three older brothers he lived in the city of Burbank in a small carriage. He witnessed the constant quarrels of adults and was not surprised when they decided to divorce. At that time he was 14 years old. From that time on, he and his brothers became frequent guests at the grandfather’s ranch with his grandmother, and it was here that he began to have a love of literature. At the age of 20, he enters journalism at the University of Oregon, takes a job as a trainee at the National Public Radio (NPR). Thanks to his extensive experience working at NPR, after graduating from university in 1986, he easily got a job as a full-time journalist in a newspaper in Portland.
In parallel with this, he begins to search for himself as a writer of fiction and in 1988 decides to leave the post of journalist.
Understanding that he does not have enough life experience to write books, he is taken for volunteer work. First in a shelter for people without a fixed place of residence, and later in a hospice. There, his duties included transporting doomed people to meetings with a support group. And he leaves the hospice, after the death of the patient to whom he was attached. This period of his life was difficult for him emotionally, but he remembered the experience he received and later reflected in the novel “Fight Club”.
After the hospice, he falls into a group that consisted mainly of drunkards and brawlers. Which in the following will also be reflected in his books.
To get out of an emotionally unstable state, Chuck Palahniuk begins to attend Tom Spaunbauer's writing courses and at the age of 35 is taken to writing books.
Career
Until the age of 35, Chuck Palahniuk was looking for himself, looking for his way to success. His first manuscripts for that period - "Insomnia: If you lived here, you were already at home" and "Invisible" - the publishers refused to accept the press. But the "Fight Club", which was written with aggression, received a great response from publishers and the public. But he could not sign a contract with any literary agent. And only in 1999 did recognition and fame come to him after the release on the big screen of a picture taken from the book of the same name “Fight Club”. In the same year, he again handed over to the publisher an edited manuscript of "Invisible", which was subsequently literally swept away from the shelves of bookstores.
In 2002, the book "Lullaby" was published. This work was written by Chuck Palahniuk under the influence of events that happened to him. So, in 1999, after success came to him, he learns about the death of his father, who was killed and burned along with his lover - Donna Fontaine. The criminal turned out to be a former roommate of Donna, who went to jail according to her testimony in court for rape.
In 2003, the controversial novels Diary and Fantastic Fiction were published. And in the same year, an autobiography novel and at the same time a guide to Portland, the city where the writer lived and worked for a long time, “Runaways and Tramps, ” came to the stores.
In 2008, the novel "Choking" was published, the adaptation of which is directed by Clark Gregg. In Russia, the picture was released on January 15, 2009.
In 2010, the novel "Who Will Tell Everything" was published, and it was recognized as the most striking novel about Hollywood stars of the 50s. The work was translated into Russian in 2012.
