| Michael Cunningham
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1952 and grew up in Pasadena, California. He received his
B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of
Iowa. His novel A Home at the End of the World was published by FSG in 1990 to
wide acclaim. Flesh and Blood, another novel, followed in 1995. His work has
appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker,
Vogue, and Metropolitan Home. His story "White Angel" was chosen
for Best American Short Stories 1989.
Michael received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award,
both for The Hours, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship in 1988, and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa in
1982. Michael currently lives in New York City. |
