Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. Chuck is known for his darkly comic and often disturbing novels. Palahniuk while working as a truck mechanic took up with a group called the “Cacophony Society”, a band of tricksters and free spirits based in the North West who staged various public pranks and anarchic adventures, such as dressing up as salmon and running “upstream” against the annual Bay to Breakers marathon in San Francisco. The Cacophony Society obviously became the inspiration, for Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club which was adapted into a a film in 1999, directed by David Fincher.