Chuck Palahniuk

At 62 years old, Chuck Palahniuk has this physical status:

Charles Michael Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist who writes about his work as transgressional fiction.

He is the author of the award-winning book Fight Club, which was later made into a well-known film of the same name.

Early life

Palahniuk's uncle, Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk, was born in Pasco, Washington, where he was born in Pasco, Washington. He has ancestry in France and Ukraine. In 1907, his paternal grandfather migrated from Ukraine to Canada and then to New York. Palahniuk grew up in Burbank, Washington, in a cell phone home. His parents divorced when he was 14 years old, often leaving him and his three siblings to live with their maternal grandparents at their cattle ranch in eastern Washington. Palahniuk admitted in a 2007 interview that he is a distant cousin of actor Jack Palance, and that his family has talked of distant acquaintances with Palance. Palahniuk earned his degree in journalism in 1986 and attended the University of Oregon in his twenties. As part of his studies, he interned at KLCC, the local public radio station.

Personal life

Palahniuk, a juvenile, became a member of the rebellious Cacophony Society. He is a regular attender of Portland, Oregon,'s annual Santa Rampage (a public Christmas party involving pranks and alcohol) is a fixture. His membership in the Society inspired some of the events in his books, both fictional and non-fictional.

After an interview with Karen Valby, a reporter for Entertainment Weekly, Palahniuk came out as gay. He openly stated his homosexuality on his website, despite the fact that Valby's covertly referring to his male partner. According to a video interview with The Advocate in May 2008, he and his unidentified male companion live in a former church building outside of Vancouver, Washington. He and his partner have been together since the 1990s, having met while Palahniuk was working at Freightliner. "We both had these really blue-collar lives, and now our lives are completely different."

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Career

He wrote for the local newspaper for a short time, but then began working for Freightliner Trucks as a diesel mechanic, extending his writing career. During this time, he wrote manuals on fixing trucks and spent a stint as a writer, but he did not return to work until after he became a good novelist. Palahniuk left his career as a journalist in 1988 after casually attending a Landmark Education seminar. As an escort, he served as an ambassador for a homeless shelter and volunteered at a hospice, escorting terminally ill people to attend group meetings. He stopped participating in the case of a patient to whom he had been attached.

In his mid-twenties, Palahniuk began writing stories. He began writing after attending writers' workshops, which were hosted by Tom Spanbauer, which he attended to see new people. Palahniuk's minimalistic writing style was largely inspired by the spanbauer's minimalistic writing style.

He began working on his first published book, Fight Club, after his first book, Invisible Monsters, was rejected by all publishers he submitted it to. Palahniuk wrote this article in his spare time while working for Freightliner. Palahniuk converted it from a short story (which became chapter 6 of the book) in the 1995 compilation Pursuit of Happiness, which disappointed him. Although the hardcover version of the book received rave reviews and some awards, it was short on shelf life.

Palahniuk's initial attempts to find a literary agent and went without one until the publication of Fight Club. Palahniuk was signed by actor and literary agent Edward Hibbert after he began receiving notice from twentieth Century Fox. Hibbert was eventually lead and broke the agreement that took Fight Club to the big screen. The film version by director David Fincher was released in 1999. Despite that it was No. 0), the film was a box office disappointment (though it was not No. 1). First weekend, the box office's first weekend, was mixed, but a cult ensued shortly after the film's DVD became extremely popular on release. In 1999, three editions of the novel were published in paperback (with a new introduction by the author about the film's popularity), and in 2005 (with an afterword by Palahniuk).

In 1999, a new version of Invisible Monsters, as well as his fourth book, Survivor, were released. Palahniuk made his first New York Times bestseller, Choke, which was later made into a film a few years ago.

Palahniuk's life was marred by a string of tragic events in 1999. Fred Palahniuk's father, Fred Palahniuk, had started dating Donna Fontaine, whom he had met through a personal ad titled "Kismet." Dale Shackelford, her ex-boyfriend, had been jailed for sexual assault and had promised to murder Fontaine as soon as he was released from jail. Palahniuk claims that Fontaine was searching for "the greatest man she could find" to shield her from Shackelford and Palahniuk's father, and Palahniuk's father is unknown. After being released, Shackelford followed Fontaine and the senior Palahniuk to Fontaine's house in Kendrick, Idaho, where they had been out for a date. Shackelford fired them both and pulled their bodies into Fontaine's cabin home, which he later set alight. Shackelford was found guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death in 2001. Palahniuk began working on Lullaby after all of this tragedy. He has said that he wrote the book to help him cope with his involvement in the decision to have Shackelford receive the death sentence.

Diary, Palahniuk, a sensational tale of accidents involving masturbation that appears in his book, Haunted, while on his 2003 tour to promote his book. The author encourages his listeners to inhale deeply and that "this story should take about as long as you can hold your breath." When holding their breath, 40 people appeared to the readings had fainted, according to the researchers. The story was published in Playboy magazine's March 2004 issue, and Palahniuk promised to allow them to publish another story along with it, but the publishers were too afraid to publish. On his tour to promote Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories, he read "Guts" to audiences once more in the summer of 2004, bringing the total number of fainters up to 53 (and later on tour to promote the softcover version of Diary). He started promoting Haunted in the fall of last year and then continued to read "Guts" in the fall. Palahniuk wrote that the number of fainters had risen to 67 in June 2005. Five people fainted, one of whom fell and struck his head on the door when attempting to leave the auditorium on May 28, 2007. Since then, audio recordings of his readings of the tale have been released on the Internet. Palahniuk said that Guts had been responsible for 73 fainting incidents in the afterword to the new Haunted version.

Palahniuk said Haunted represented the last of a "horror trilogy" (including Lullaby and Diary), at a 2005 appearance in Miami, Florida, during the Haunted tour. Rant, his then-forthcoming book, will be the first in a "science fiction trilogy," he said.

Palahniuk spent a week at the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2008, teaching eighteen students about his writing techniques and the history of fiction.

In comparison to the film, Fight Club was turned into a fighting video game loosely based on the film, which attracted critical criticism around the world in October 2004. Palahniuk has revealed that he is working on a musical based on Fight Club with David Fincher and Trent Reznor. Edward Norton has said that he thinks it is unlikely that he and Brad Pitt, who "can't sing," would reprise their film roles in a musical.

Invisible Monsters and Lullaby, graphic novel adaptations by comic artist Kissgz a.k.a. Gabor is also available online.

Following the success of Fight Club's film, an interest began to develop in converting Survivor to film. In early 2001, the rights to Survivor were released, but no film studio had agreed to filming the book. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, movie studios have apparently deemed the book too tense to film because it includes both the hijacking and crash of a civilian plane. In mid-2004, 20th Century Fox committed to adapting Palahniuk's book. Palahniuk has confirmed that the same people who made the film Constantine will be involved in this film.

In the aftermath, the film rights to Invisible Monsters and Diary were also available. Although little is known about any of these projects, Jessica Biel has confirmed that she was signed to appear in Invisible Monsters, the 2004 filming of Shannon and Brandy, but that As of 2010, it was still in progress.

Palahniuk wrote some of the Manhunt 2 stories as a freelance writer in 2007.

Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald, and Anjelica Huston appeared in the Sundance Film Festival on January 14, 2008. Clark Gregg directed. David Fincher expressed an interest in filming Diary as an HBO miniseries.

The film version of Rant was announced on September 11, 2014, starring James Franco, with Pamela Romanowsky writing and directing.

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