Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. He lives near Vancouver, Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chuck Palahniuk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.