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Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University.
Jul 31, 1998 · In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.
As the novel jump-cuts through the twentieth century every line resonates with Cunningham's clear, strong. surprisingly lyrical contemporary voice. Passionate, profound and deeply moving, The Hours is Michael Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date. (From the book jacket)
The Hours, a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs. Dalloway; Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes within different settings.
Nov 11, 2023 · Michael Cunningham has written his first novel in almost a decade. Did it take the pandemic to do it? "Day" brings us into a circle of family and friends in three days - April...
Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown.
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.
Dec 5, 2010 · Michael Cunningham won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel "The Hours." He was in Prague recently and sat down with Salome Asatiani from RFE/RL's Georgian...
May 23, 2014 · Michael Cunningham is no saint, as he’d be the first to admit. It’s a Sunday afternoon when we meet and the night before, he was partying into the early hours with Zadie Smith.
Nov 20, 2023 · Michael Cunningham’s writing has always been obsessed with time. Of his seven novels, four have titles that reflect this fixation: The Hours (1998), his Pulitzer Prize–winning riff on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway ; Specimen Days (2005); By Nightfall (2010); and now Day, published this month.
