The Hours

American writer Michael Cunningham was born on November 6, 1952, in New York City. He grew up and studied in Cincinnati, Ohio, where, at only fifteen years old, he decided to become a writer after reading... Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, in a volume that a passionate admirer had challenged him to read.
After finishing high school, he enrolled at Stanford University as a student of English Literature, earning his degree in 1975. He then transferred to the University of Iowa, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980.
In 1989 he saw his short story. 'White Angel'to be chosen for an anthology, bringing together the best works of the genre from that year, the Best American Short Stories 1989He published his first novel the following year, with the title A Home At The End Of The World (1990). The work told the story of an unusual love triangle between two homosexual men and a mutual friend, and gained immediate critical acclaim. As a result of this success, Cunningham received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1993.
The appearance of followed. Flesh and Blood (1995), a novel in which the author described the problems of the Stassos family, presenting an original perspective on the relationship between past and future.
In 1998 he published The Hours, a work in which Cunningham paid homage to the novel that inspired his career, Mrs. DallowayDividing the action between Greenwich Village in the 1980s, Los Angeles in the 1940s, and Virginia Woolf's London, the book was seen by critics as an ambitious but successful project, a fact confirmed by the award. Pulitzer and Faulkner Pen in the Fiction category. The Hours It was adapted into a film in 2002, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore.
Published Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown In 2002, he produced a work that studied a community of artists residing in a small town on Cape Cod. He lives in New York.