Michael Cunningham was born in Ohio and grew up in California. He received his BA in English from Stanford University and his MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa.
His novel The Hours won both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner award and became an Academy Award-winning film starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. An earlier novel, A Home at the End of the World, was recently made into a film starring Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn.
He currently lives in New York.
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