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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.
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.
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)
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.
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 5,...
Michael Cunningham has 100 books on Goodreads with 571055 ratings. Michael Cunningham’s most popular book is The Hours.
