Michael Cunningham
American novelist and screenwriter
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952)[1] is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [2] and the PEN/Faulkner Award [3] in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University .[4]
Early life and education
Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio , and grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California .[5] [6] 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[7] and in 1993 a Guggenheim Fellowship .[8] In 1995 he was awarded a Whiting Award .[9] Cunningham has taught at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts , and in the creative writing M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College .
Career
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.[10] Cunningham edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman ,[11] 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.[12]
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 .[13] The miniseries premiered on June 7, 2019.
Personal life
Although Cunningham is gay, and married to psychoanalyst Ken Corbett,[14] he dislikes being referred to as a gay writer , according to a PlanetOut article.[15] 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."[16] Cunningham lives in Brooklyn , New York and works in Manhattan .[17]
Bibliography
Cunningham reading at a W. H. Auden tribute in New York, 2007
Novels
Short stories
Collections:
A Wild Swan and Other Tales (2015), Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0374290252 , 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-fiction
"The Slap of Love" . Open City . 6 . 1996. , article
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
Screenplays
Contributor
Adaptations
The Hours (2002), film directed by Stephen Daldry , based on novel The Hours
The Hours (2022), opera with music by Kevin Puts and libretto by Greg Pierce, based on the novel and the film
A Home at the End of the World (2004), film directed by Michael Mayer , based on novel A Home at the End of the World
The Destruction Artist (2012), short film directed by Michael Sharpe, based on short story "The Destruction Artist"
The Hours: A Live Tribute (2016), short film directed by Tim McNeill, based on novel The Hours
Awards and achievements
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.[19]
See also
References
^ "Meet the Writers: Michael Cunningham" . barnesandnoble.com . Barnes & Noble . c. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2009-06-26 .
^ "The Hours , by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)" . www.pulitzer.org . Retrieved 2023-12-11 .
^ "Past Award Winners & Finalists | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation" . www.penfaulkner.org . Retrieved 2023-12-11 .
^ "Michael Cunningham | English" . english.yale.edu . Retrieved 2023-12-11 .
^ "Michael Cunningham" . SBA The Steven Barclay Agency. Archived from the original on 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2023-10-03 .
^ Felicelli, Anita (September 13, 2022). "The Moment: Introducing the Special Guest in Conversation with Julie Otsuka" . Alta . Archived from the original on 2022-09-13.
^ "Literature Fellowships" . www.arts.gov . Retrieved 2023-12-11 .
^ "Michael Cunningham" . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.. . Retrieved 2023-12-11 .
^ "Michael Cunningham" . www.whiting.org . Retrieved 2023-12-11 .
^ metacritic entry on "Specimen Days" [dead link ]
^ "For Every Atom Belonging to Me: Poet Michael Cunningham", Radio Netherlands Archives, October 7, 2006
^ "Three-Minute Fiction: The Winner Is ..." NPR.org .
^ Petski, Denise (April 24, 2018). "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City Revival Gets Series Order At Netflix; Ellen Page Joins Cast" . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
^ Leland, John (October 24, 2002). "At Home With: Michael Cunningham; This Is the House The Book Bought" . The New York Times . Retrieved September 7, 2013 .
^ PlanetOut Entertainment Archived August 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ Moore, Chadwick (September 30, 2010). "Catching Up with Michael Cunningham" . Out . Retrieved September 7, 2013 .
^ Alter, Alexandra (September 13, 2023). "Michael Cunningham Couldn't Help but Write a Pandemic Novel" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 11, 2023 .
^ "Charles Lane Press | Books" .
^ "Le menzogne di Cunningham e la musica di Servillo - la Repubblica.it" . July 2011.
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