Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the awardwinning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name.

Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele and Fred Palahniuk. He has French, Russian, and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was Ukrainian and emigrated to New York from Canada in 1907. Palahniuk grew up living in a mobile home in Burbank, Washington. His parents separated when he wasand subsequently divorced, often leaving him and his three siblings to live with their maternal grandparents at their cattle ranch in Eastern Washington. Palahniuk acknowledged in a 2007 interview that he is a distant nephew of actor Jack Palance, and that his family had talked of distant relations with Palance.

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