Michael Cunningham

Born:	November 6, 1952 (1952-11-06) (age 54) Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Occupation:	novelist
Nationality:	American
Debut works:	Golden States (1984)
Influences:	Virginia Woolf
Signature:
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 in 1999. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 473 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1420 × 1800 pixel, file size: 102 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... For the American childrens writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Image File history File links MCunninghamSign. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... The Hours is a novel written by Michael Cunningham. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ...

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. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... The University of Iowa -- or Iowa for short -- is a major national research university located on a 1,900-acre campus in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on the banks of the Iowa River in East Central Iowa. ... In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is a terminal graduate degree in an area of visual, plastic, literary or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level. ... The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is a prestigious college and graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... The Paris Review, which is actually based in New York, is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ...

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 at Brooklyn College. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... The Whiting Writers Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. ... Nickname: P-town Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Barnstable County Settled 1700 Incorporated 1727 Government  - Type Open town meeting  - Town    Manager Keith A. Bergman Area  - Town  17. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Although Cunningham is gay and has been partnered for 18 years, he dislikes being referred to as only a "gay writer", 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. GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... PlanetOut Inc. ...

Currently, he teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Brooklyn College. Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from technical writing. ... In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is a terminal graduate degree in an area of visual, plastic, literary or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level. ... Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Cunningham has co-written, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel Evening. He is also a producer for the film, which, according to IMDb, stars Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep. Susan Minot (b. ... Evening is a 2007 drama film based on the book by Susan Minot. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. ... Toni Collette promoting In Her Shoes Antonia Collette (born November 1, 1972) is an Academy award-nominated Australian actress. ... Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ...

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Bibliography

Novels

• 1984 Golden States
• 1990 A Home at the End of the World
• 1995 Flesh and Blood
• 1998 The Hours
• 2005 Specimen Days

A Home at the End of the World is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham, who also wrote the screenplay of the movie (directed by Michael Mayer). ... The Hours is a novel written by Michael Cunningham. ... Specimen Days is a novel written by Michael Cunningham. ...

Nonfiction

• 2002 Lands End: A Walk in Provincetown

Nickname: P-town Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Barnstable County Settled 1700 Incorporated 1727 Government  - Type Open town meeting  - Town    Manager Keith A. Bergman Area  - Town  17. ...

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 tranlation by Michael Henry Heim) (Introduction)
• 2006 Laws for Creations, Poems by Walt Whitman (Editor and introduction)

An exhibition catalogue is a printed list of what is on show in an art or other exhibition. ... The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf published in 1915 by Duckworth; published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. ... For the American childrens writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. ... Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual. ... Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ...

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: The Best American series is an annually-published collection of books, published by Houghton Mifflin, each of which features a different genre or theme. ... The O. Henry Awards are yearly prizes given to short stories of exceptional merit. ...

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1999
• PEN/Faulkner Award - 1999
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award - 1999

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ... The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to an American author. ... Sponsored by the American Library Associations Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table, The Stonewall Book Awards are the first and most enduring awards for GLBT books. ...

External links

• Michael Cunningham's website
• Michael Cunningham at the Internet Movie Database
• 2004 article by Randy Shulman from Metro Weekly
• Real Audio interview with Michael Cunningham by Don Swaim