Michael Cunningham
American novelist and screenwriter · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1952 · age 74
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.
Michael Cunningham is read about 231 times a day, in 38 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2014“A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.”In their wordsThe Snow Queen (2014)2011Fernanda Pivano Award for American LiteratureAward1999PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAwardPulitzer Prize for FictionAward1998“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”In their wordsQuote from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to Leonard Woolf“What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.”In their wordsClarissa reflecting on the day as she walks to the flower shop.“He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.”In their wordsLaura reflecting on her son's transparent love for her.“...Virginia lingers another moment beside the dead bird in its circle of roses. It could be a kind of hat. It could be the missing link between millinery and death.”In their wordsVirginia in the garden.“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that.”In their wordsClarissa reflecting at the end of the day.1952Born6 November 1952
People around Michael
Close ties
Virginia Woolf Influenced Michael
Meryl Streep Michael wrote The Hours and Evening
Claire Danes Michael wrote Evening (2008)
Toni Collette Michael wrote The Hours and Evening
Renny Harlin Directed Die Hard 2 (1990)
Stephen Daldry Directed The Hours (2002)
Tom Hulce Produced A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Eileen Atkins Michael wrote Evening (2007)
Hugh Hudson Directed Lost Angels (1990)
Joel Silver Produced Die Hard 2 (1990)
Lajos Koltai Directed Evening (2007)
Lawrence Gordon Produced Die Hard 2 (1990)- Mark Huffam Produced The Hours (2002)
Michael Mayer Directed A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Robert Fox Produced The Hours (2002)- Emily M. Danforth Influenced by Michael
Manil Suri Influenced by Michael- Ian MacNeil Produced The Hours (2002)
Media & music
In their own words 1
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...the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
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About this person
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1952 · age 74
