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Michael Cunningham ~ Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Hours
Michael Cunningham gets all the
little things right in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The
Hours. Rarely missing a telling detail or a larger emotional truth,
he masterfully explores the quiet, private moments of a life. Crediting
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway with allowing him to entertain
“the wild hope” of being a writer, Cunningham deftly evokes
fleeting thoughts and states of consciousness in his books.
Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952 and grew up in
La Canada, California. He received his B.A. in English Literature from
Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His
novel A
Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar, Straus &
Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. Flesh
and Blood, another novel, followed in 1995. He received the
1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel,
The
Hours. He has written one nonfiction book, Land's
End: A Walk Through Provincetown. He is also the author
of Specimen
Days (June 2005).
A film version of The
Hours was directed by Stephen Daldry and featured Julianne Moore,
Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. A film version of A
Home at the End of the World was directed by Michael Mayer, and
featured Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts and Sissy Spacek.
Cunningham and Susan Minot co-wrote the screenplay for her novel Evening;
the film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Colette, Patrick Wilson,
and Meryl Streep.
Cunningham's work has appeared in
The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review,
and other publications. His story “White Angel” was chosen
for Best American Short Stories 1989, and another story, “Mister
Brother,” appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection.
Michael Cunningham is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award (1995),
a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
(1988), and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa (1982).
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