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Michael Cunningham

Born:November 6 1952 (1952--) (age 55)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Occupation:novelist
Nationality:American
Debut works:Golden States (1984)
Influences:Virginia Woolf
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Website:michaelcunninghamwriter.com
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.

Life and career

Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied English literature at Stanford University where he earned his degree. Later at the University of Iowa he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review. His story "White Angel," from his novel A Home at the End of the World was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989," published by Houghton Mifflin.

In 1993 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1998 a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In 1995 he was awarded the Whiting Writers' Award. Cunningham teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and in the creative writing MFA program at Brooklyn College.

Although Cunningham is gay and has been partnered for 18 years, he dislikes being referred to as only a "", according to a PlanetOut article[1] because while being gay does greatly influence his work, he feels that it is not (and should not be) his defining characteristic.

Although The Hours established Cunningham as a major force in American writing, his most recent novel, Specimen Days, was not well received by American critics. Cunningham has edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman, Laws for Creations, and has co-written, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel Evening. He is also a producer for the 2007 film, which stars Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep.

Bibliography

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Cunningham reading at a W. H. Auden tribute in New York.

Novels

Nonfiction

Screenplays

  • 2004 A Home at the End of the World
  • 2007 Evening

Contributor

Awards and achievements

For The Hours, Cunningham was awarded the:

References

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    Publication date 11 November, 1998
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