Biography

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck is a low key writer who never stops writing and taking down notes to file away for future writing. Very funny, very creative and very thought provoking. His books often make you look at yourself in ways that you would never have before. Same goes for the world, he will make you notice things that you never did. He is of French and Russian descent but his last name is from Ukraine. He gained recognition with his first book "Fight Club" which was later made into a film by 20th Century Fox. He went on to gain popularity as his later novels which include Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, and Haunted. More recently (2003) he has written a travel book about his hometown Portland, Oregon entitled "Fugitives & Refugees". His newest novel is entitled "Rant".
- IMDb mini biography by: Ramon Vasquez Jr.

Novels and short stories tend to resemble poetry more than traditional prose.
Often makes references to urban legends in his writing, both well-known and obscure, some made-up.
Dark sense of humor
Use of first person narration
His stories often start at the end and then go back to the beginning

His father was murdered in the mountains outside Kendrick, Idaho. The body was found, shot, next to the body of a woman, in a burned-down garage. At the trial of the man who murdered him, it came out that his father had answered a personal ad placed by a woman whose ex-husband had threatened to kill her and any man that he ever found her with.
Many of Tyler Durden's lines of dialogue and actions are based on things his friends have said and done. For instance, he based Tyler's habit of inserting frames from pornography films into Children's films on a High school friend with whom he worked as a projectionist.
Has said he prefers the film version of ''Fight Club'' to his novel.
His brother Matt is a Chemical engineer for Chevron and gave him details for making explosives in ''Fight Club''.
Many of the details of support meetings in 'Fight Club' are based on his own experiences driving terminally ill people to meetings.

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