# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-cunningham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:33:45.380Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-cunningham"
name: "Michael Cunningham"
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description: "Michael Cunningham 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."
tagline: "American novelist and screenwriter"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump