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Michael Cunningham

Born November 6, 1952 (1952-11-06) (age 55)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Occupation novelist
Nationality American
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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. Events 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United States of America —commonly referred to as the (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost Events 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story The Hours is a 1998 Novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner 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 the author of the best American work of fiction that year

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Life and career

Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Pasadena, California. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. He studied English literature at Stanford University where he earned his degree. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in 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. The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is a graduate-level While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review. The Atlantic (formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly) is an American Magazine founded in Boston in 1857 The Paris Review is an English-language Literary magazine based in New York City. 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. Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence In 1995 he was awarded the Whiting Writers' Award. The Whiting Writers’ Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction nonfiction poetry and plays Cunningham teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and in the creative writing MFA program at Brooklyn College. The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Massachusetts, was founded in 1968 by a group of American artists and writers to support promising individuals who were early in their creative Provincetown is a town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Creative writing is considered to be any writing Fiction or Non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, Journalistic, In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree 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. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. PlanetOut Inc a public media and entertainment company exclusively targeting a segment of the LGBT demographic

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 [2]. Specimen Days is a 2005 Novel by American writer Michael Cunningham. 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. Walter Whitman (May 31 1819 &ndash March 26 1892 was an American poet, Essayist journalist, and humanist. Susan Minot He is also a producer for the 2007 film, Evening, which stars Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep. Evening is a 2007 American Drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American Singer and Actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known Antonia "Toni" Collette (born 1 November 1972 is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -nominated Australian actress and Musician Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an award-winning American Actress who has worked in Theatre,

Bibliography

Cunningham reading at a W. H. Auden tribute in New York.
Cunningham reading at a W. H. Auden tribute in New York. Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W

Novels

Nonfiction

Screenplays

Contributor

Awards and achievements

For The Hours, Cunningham was awarded the:

References

  1. ^ PlanetOut Entertainment
  2. ^ NY Times Review

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