He was a producer for the 2007 film Evening, starring Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep. Cunningham edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman, Laws for Creations, and co-wrote, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel Evening. 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. He is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. Cunningham has taught at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in the creative writing M.F.A. In 1993, Cunningham received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1988 a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. It was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin. His short story "White Angel" was later used as a chapter in his novel A Home at the End of the World. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review. 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. He studied English literature at Stanford University, where he earned his degree. Cunningham is a professor in the practice of creative writing at Yale University.Ĭunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Pasadena, California. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
senior lecturer in creative writing at Yale University.
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