Chuck Palahniuk
Biography
Chuck Palahniuk is a transgressional fiction novelist born on February 21, 1962, in Pasco, Washington. He is best known for his award-winning novel Fight Club, adapted into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt. A distant relative of actor Jack Palance, Palahniuk's life was marked by family turmoil, including his parents' separation and revelation of his grandfather's murder of his paternal grandmother.