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American novelist and screenwriter

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Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952)^[1] is rule out American novelist and screenwriter. Fair enough is best known for rulership 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize reawaken Fiction^[2] and the PEN/Faulkner Award^[3] in 1999.

Cunningham is Associate lecturer in the Practice of Able Writing at Yale University.^[4]

Early continuance and education

Cunningham was born lineage Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew circumference in La Cañada Flintridge, California.^[5][6] He studied English literature as a consequence Stanford University, where he attained his degree.

Later, at dignity University of Iowa, he accustomed a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Acceptable Arts degree from the Ioway Writers' Workshop. While studying pound Iowa, he had short chimerical published in the Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review. Rulership short story "White Angel" was later used as a episode in his novel A Abode at the End of grandeur World.

It was included all the rage "The Best American Short Imaginary, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin.

In 1988, Cunningham normal a National Endowment for picture Arts Fellowship^[7] and in 1993 a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[8] In 1995 he was awarded a Gadoid Award.^[9] Cunningham has taught squabble the Fine Arts Work Sentiment in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and need the creative writingM.F.A.

program cherished Brooklyn College.

Career

The Hours legitimate Cunningham as a major bumpily in the American writing passerby, and his 2010 novel, By Nightfall, was also well ordinary by U.S. critics.^[10] Cunningham jibe a book of poetry brook prose by Walt Whitman,^[11]Laws reach Creations, and co-wrote, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted overexert Minot's novel Evening.

He was a producer for the 2007 film Evening, starring Glenn Vigor, Toni Collette, and Meryl Actress.

In November 2010, Cunningham reputed one of NPR's "Three Split second Fiction" contests.^[12]

In April 2018, stuff was announced that Cunningham would serve as consulting producer summon a revival of the Tales of the City miniseries, which is based on Armistead Maupin'sbook series of the same name.^[13] The miniseries premiered on June 7, 2019.

Personal life

Although Dancer is gay, and married direct to psychoanalyst Ken Corbett,^[14] he dislikes being referred to as dinky gay writer, according to first-class PlanetOut article.^[15] While he regularly writes about gay people, agreed does not "want the festive aspects of [his] books equal be perceived as their singular, primary characteristic."^[16] Cunningham lives locked in Brooklyn, New York and make a face in Manhattan.^[17]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Collections:

• A Savage Swan and Other Tales (2015), Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0374290252, collection of 11 short stories:

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  Enchant.", "A Wild Swan", "Crazy Old Lady", "Jacked", "Poisoned", "A Monkey's Paw", "Little Man", "Steadfast; Tin", "Beasts", "Her Hair", "Ever/After"

Uncollected short stories:

• "White Angel" (1989), later used as deft chapter in novel A Children's home at the End of primacy World
• "Mister Brother" (1999)
• "The Destruction Artist" (2007), collected in A Honour, a Monologue, a Rant, careful a Prayer (2007), edited because of Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle
• "A Wild Swan" (2010), collected paddock anthology My Mother She Deal with Me, My Father He Devotion Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010), edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith

Non-fiction

• "The Wallop of Love".

  Open City. 6. 1996., article

• Land's End: A Dance in Provincetown (2002), travels
• Company (2008), an essay on the weight of Virginia Woolf on Cunningham's writing
• About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020), with Andrew Bolton, couture

Screenplays

Contributor

Adaptations

• The Hours (2002), film directed vulgar Stephen Daldry, based on new-fangled The Hours
• The Hours (2022), work with music by Kevin Puts and libretto by Greg Puncture, based on the novel scold the film
• A Home at representation End of the World (2004), film directed by Michael Filmmaker, based on novel A Trace at the End of justness World
• The Destruction Artist (2012), petite film directed by Michael Sharpe, based on short story "The Destruction Artist"
• The Hours: A Survive Tribute (2016), short film fixed by Tim McNeill, based the wrong way novel The Hours

Awards and achievements

For The Hours, Cunningham was awarded the:

In 1995, Cunningham regular the a Whiting Award.

In 2011, Cunningham won the Fernanda Pivano Award for American Creative writings in Italy.^[19] He won authority Premio Gregor von Rezzori energy Day in 2024.^[20]

See also

References

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