TY - SER KW - college students KW - writers KW - unplanned pregnancies KW - Jewish Americans KW - professors AU - Michael Chabon AB - Professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend, Tripp’s wife walks out on him and he learns that his mistress, Sara Gaskell—who is also the chancellor of the college—is pregnant with his child. Tripp next finds himself involved in a crime involving one of his students, an alienated young writer named James Leer. During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellor's dog and steals her husband's prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the starlet on her wedding day to Joe DiMaggio. C1 - 1980s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; University of Pittsburgh; Squirrel Hill; Carnegie Mellon University; Shadyside; East Liberty; Highland Park; Fox Chapel; Erie County; Lake Erie C4 - Literary; Satire; Comedy; Campus; Roman à clef CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend, Tripp’s wife walks out on him and he learns that his mistress, Sara Gaskell—who is also the chancellor of the college—is pregnant with his child. Tripp next finds himself involved in a crime involving one of his students, an alienated young writer named James Leer. During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellor's dog and steals her husband's prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the starlet on her wedding day to Joe DiMaggio. PB - Villard Books PP - New York PY - 1995 RN - Michael Chabon (1963— ) was born in Washington, DC and educated at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine. He earned the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. EP - 368 p. TI - Wonder Boys ER -