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Michael Cunningham

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Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:BLP sources Template:Infobox writer Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the PEN/Faulkner Award<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He studied English literature at Stanford University, where he earned his degree. Later, at the University of Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review. His short story "White Angel" was later used as a chapter in his novel A Home at the End of the World. It was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin.

In 1988, Cunningham received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in 1993 a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1995 he was awarded a Whiting Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Cunningham has taught at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in the creative writing M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College.

CareerEdit

The Hours established Cunningham as a major force in the American writing sphere, and his 2010 novel, By Nightfall, was also well received by U.S. critics.<ref>metacritic entry on "Specimen Days"Template:Dead link</ref> Cunningham edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman,<ref>"For Every Atom Belonging to Me: Poet Michael Cunningham", Radio Netherlands Archives, October 7, 2006</ref> Laws for Creations, and co-wrote, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel Evening. He was a producer for the 2007 film Evening, starring Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep.

In November 2010, Cunningham judged one of NPR's "Three Minute Fiction" contests.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In April 2018, it was announced that Cunningham would serve as consulting producer for a revival of the Tales of the City miniseries, which is based on Armistead Maupin's book series of the same name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The miniseries premiered on June 7, 2019.

Personal lifeEdit

Although Cunningham is gay, and married to psychoanalyst Ken Corbett,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> he dislikes being referred to as a gay writer, according to a PlanetOut article.<ref>PlanetOut Entertainment Template:Webarchive</ref> While he often writes about gay people, he does not "want the gay aspects of [his] books to be perceived as their single, primary characteristic."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Cunningham lives in Brooklyn, New York and works in Manhattan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

BibliographyEdit

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

NovelsEdit

Short storiesEdit

Collections:

  • A Wild Swan and Other Tales (2015), Farrar, Straus and Giroux Template:ISBN, collection of 11 short stories:
    "Dis. Enchant.", "A Wild Swan", "Crazy Old Lady", "Jacked", "Poisoned", "A Monkey's Paw", "Little Man", "Steadfast; Tin", "Beasts", "Her Hair", "Ever/After"

Uncollected short stories:

Non-fictionEdit

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  • Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown (2002), travels
  • Company (2008), an essay on the influence of Virginia Woolf on Cunningham's writing
  • About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020), with Andrew Bolton, couture

ScreenplaysEdit

ContributorEdit

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AdaptationsEdit

Awards and achievementsEdit

For The Hours, Cunningham was awarded the:

In 1995, Cunningham received the a Whiting Award.

In 2011, Cunningham won the Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature in Italy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He won the Premio Gregor von Rezzori for Day in 2024.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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