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| Name:
Michael Cunningham
Current Home:
New York, New York
Date of Birth:
November 6, 1952
Place of Birth:
Cincinnati, Ohio
| | Education:
B.A., Stanford University, 1975; M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1980
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1999; PEN/Faulkner Award, 1999 for The Hours
Michael Cunningham's official web site
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Cunningham's Reading Recommendations
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Illuminating the Dark Side
| In a recent interview with PBS's Elizabeth Farnsworth, Cunningham explained why his novels tend to have a rather shadowy undertone: "I can't imagine wanting to write a novel that wasn't about darkness in some way," Cunningham admitted. "I don't feel like we need much help with our happiness. The Kodak moments we can manage on our own."
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The Pulitzer Prize Winner
| Cunningham's Inspiration
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| | The Hours
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Michael Cunningham
Cunningham's self-described "riff" on Virginia Woolf's classic meditation, Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999, and was adapted for the silver screen as the Oscar favorite starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman.
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| | Mrs. Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf
In an interview with Barnes & Noble.com, Cunningham described the impact Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway had on him at fifteen: "I'd never seen sentences of such complexity, musicality, density, and beauty. I remember thinking, "Hey, she was doing with language something like what Jimi Hendrix does with a guitar." Read more about Cunningham's favorite books, including:
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