Michael Cunningham

1952 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: romance novel

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Stanford University, University of Iowa, La Cañada High School

occupation: writer, screenwriter, novelist, university teacher, poet, film screenwriter

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Lambda Literary Award, Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

influenced by: Virginia Woolf

official website: www.michaelcunningham.com

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)