In which country was Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the well-known novel "Fight Club" born?

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is most notably the author of the novel "Fight Club", which also was made into a film of the same name. Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry.

Palahniuk began writing fiction in his mid-30s. After his first novel, "Invisible Monsters", was rejected by all publishers he submitted it to, he began work on his most famous novel, "Fight Club". After initially publishing it as a short story (which became chapter 6 of the novel) in the 1995 compilation "Pursuit of Happiness", Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which, contrary to his expectations, a publisher accepted. While the original hardcover edition of the book received positive reviews and some awards, it had a short shelf life.

The content of Palahniuk's works has been described as nihilistic. Palahniuk has rejected this label, stating that he is a romantic, and that his works are mistakenly seen as nihilistic because they express ideas that others do not believe in.

Palahniuk has won the following awards: 1997 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (for "Fight Club"), 1997 Oregon Book Award for Best Novel (for "Fight Club"), 2003 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (for "Lullaby").