Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham was born November 6, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in La Canada, California. He received a B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa. Cunningham is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and a Whiting Writers' Award in 1995. In 1999, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, The Hours, which was also made into a movie starring Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, and Meryl Streep. Cunningham teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and in the creative writing M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College. He currently lives in New York City.