Michael cunningham

Michael Cunningham (Cincinnati, Ohio, November 6, 1952) is an American writer of romantic novels, screenwriter, university professor and poet, known for the novels A home in the End of the World and The Hours, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for the latter.

Life and career

She grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California, in Los Angeles County. He studied English Literature at Stanford University where he got his bachelor's degree. Later at the University of Iowa she received the Michener Fellowship and was awarded an MFA from the Iowa Writers & # 39; Workshop. While studying in Iowa, she had studies published in The Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review .

In 1993 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1998 the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In 1995 she was awarded the Whiting Award. Cunningham teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Creative Writing at the MFA at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Although Cunningham is gay and had a common-law relationship with psychoanalyst Ken Corbett for many years, he dislikes being referred to just as a "homosexual writer," according to a PlanetOut article because while being gay has strongly influenced his work, he feels it is not (and should not be) his defining characteristic.

Cunningham is a producer and has adapted the screenplay for the novel Evening with its author, Susan Minot. The film version stars Glenn Close, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, and Meryl Streep.

Accommodations

• The hours (2002), film directed by Stephen Daldry, based on the novel The hours
• A Home at the End of the World (2004), film directed by Michael Mayer, based on the novel A home in the end of the world
• The Artist Destruction (2012), short film directed by Michael Sharpe, based on the story "The Destruction Artist"
• The Hours: A Live Tribute (2016), short film directed by Tim McNeill, based on the novel The hours

Awards and achievements

• "White Angel" was included in the 1989 version Best American Series.
• "Mr. Brother" was included in the 1999 book Stories of the O. Henry Prize.