Michael Cunningham

Biography

Michael Cunningham was born with Cincinnati (Ohio) and grew with Pasadena (California). He lives with New York. He studied the English literature with the Université Stanford, where he obtained a license be-letters. He studied thereafter with the Université of Iowa, and started by publishing news in The Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review . Michael Cunningham is teaching with Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (Massachusetts) and in Brooklyn College.

Work

It is in 1995 that it receives Whiting Writers' Award. Having obtained the literary dedication with the House of the end of the world , it is with the Hours , crowned by the Prix Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner Award which it is described as author of masterpieces.

Although being homosexual, Michael Cunningham does not appreciate to be only indicated like one “gay writer” (according to an article of PlanetOut ): admittedly its homosexuality strongly influenced its work, but it does not feel it like a characteristic likely to define it. Its work rests primarily on the close relationship which these three feelings maintain which are the love, the friendship and hatred, while resting primarily on examples drawn from its generation, i.e. the generation pulled about between a need for individual freedom and an omnipresent family pressure. From this topic come out in priority two of its best-sellers which are the House of the end of the world and Of flesh and blood . One cannot either prevent oneself from noticing the love which the author carries has his adoptive city New York, present in all its writings, but transcended by the character of Mrs Dalloway in The Hours . This last novel was carried to the screen in 2003 by Stephen Daldry under the title The Hours .

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