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Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), a novel about two Jewish cousins who create a comic-book superhero to fight fascism while the Holocaust unfolds around them. His alternate-history novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, imagining a Jewish settlement in Alaska, swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Sidewise Awards. His fiction returns often to Jewish identity, memory, and inheritance, most directly in Moonglow, a fictionalized memoir built from his own grandfather's deathbed confessions.