Award-winning novelist Michael Chabon shares stories on parenting

Chabon might be a Pulitzer Prize-winning author but it’s his children that give him the most pleasure, not writing.

First born was Sophie Chabon, who is 23 now. Then came Zeke, Ida-Rose and finally, 15-year-old Abe – two boys and two girls who share a family obsession with the cult British sci-fi television show Doctor Who and the confidence to develop idiosyncratic sartorial styles.

But the four siblings differ in their musical tastes, breakfast preferences and, most of all, in the lessons they have to impart to their father, the American author Michael Chabon.