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Michael Cunningham


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Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in California. He received his B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa. His novel A Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. A film version was directed by Michael Mayer, and featured Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts and Sissy Spacek.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   A Home at the End of the World (1990)
   Flesh and Blood (1995)
   The Hours (1998)
   Specimen Days (2005)
   By Nightfall (2010)
   Snow Queen (2014)
   Day (2023)
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Collections
   A Wild Swan (2015)
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Non fiction show
 
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Michael Cunningham recommends
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Inverno (2024)
Cynthia Zarin
"Cynthia Zarin's Inverno is a dazzlingly beautiful, heartbreaking invocation of love, life, and the infinite ways in which the two intersect. Writers capable of producing fabulous prose are rare. Writers who bring a laser-sharp eye to the complexities of living in the world among others, and to the various collisions of past and present, are rare as well. A writer like Zarin, who can do both, is the rarest of all. I loved every line in this book."
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The Glow (2023)
Jessie Gaynor
"Jessie Gaynor's wildly funny, laser-eyed novel is Jane Austen on steroids. It's that sharp, that wicked, that laceratingly true."
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Victory City (2023)
Salman Rushdie
"It does not resemble any other novel I could name. A major accomplishment by one of our greatest living writers."

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Anthologies containing stories by Michael Cunningham
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Small Odysseys (2022)
Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories
edited by
Hannah Tinti

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (1999) : The Hours
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1999) : The Hours
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2000) : The Hours


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