Michael Cunningham

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American novelist and screenwriter

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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.

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Cunningham reading at a W. H. Auden tribute in New York, 2007

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Michael Cunningham

said · 1998

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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Quote from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to Leonard Woolf

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Michael Cunningham

said · 1998

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What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

Clarissa reflecting on the day as she walks to the flower shop.

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Michael Cunningham

said · 1998

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He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.

Laura reflecting on her son's transparent love for her.

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Awards 5

2011Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature

1999PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

1999Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Guggenheim Fellowship

Lambda Literary Award

Connected to Michael 6

Joyce DiDonatoAlso in The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours (2022)

Christian CoulsonAlso in The Hours (2002)

Wendy CrewsonAlso in A Home at the End of the World (2004)

Ebon Moss-BachrachAlso in Evening (2007)

Matt FrewerAlso in A Home at the End of the World (2004)

Linda BassettAlso in The Hours (2002)

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