Everything about Michael Cunningham totally explained
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'd 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 because while being gay does greatly influence his work, he feels that it isn't (and shouldn't be) his defining characteristic.
Although
The Hours established Cunningham as a major force in American writing, his most recent novel,
Specimen Days, wasn't 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,
Evening, which stars
Glenn Close,
Toni Collette, and
Meryl Streep.
Bibliography
Novels
Contributor
2000 Drawn By The Sea (exhibition catalogue text; 110 signed copies)
2001 The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (Modern Library Classics edition) (Introduction)
2001 I Am Not This Body: The Pinhole Photographs of Barbara Ess (Text)
2004 Washington Square by Henry James (Signet Classics edition) (Afterword)
2004 Death In Venice by Thomas Mann (new translation by Michael Henry Heim) (Introduction)
2006 Laws for Creations, Poems by Walt Whitman (Editor and introduction)
2007 a Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle (Short Story, The Destruction Artist)
Awards and achievements
"White Angel" was included in the 1989 Best American Short Stories.
"Mr. Brother" was included in the 1999 O. Henry Prize Stories.
For The Hours, Cunningham was awarded the:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1999
PEN/Faulkner Award - 1999
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award - 1999Further Information
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