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The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - Michael CunninghamFebruary 11-12, 2002 |
| | Michael Cunningham reading - A digital recording of the February 11, 2002 event where Cunningham read from The Hours and answered questions. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event. Michael Cunningham interview/conversation - A recording of the February 12, 2002 audiocast of the interview and conversation with Michael Cunningham, moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. An introduction to this event was given by Dan Fishback, a student in the Writers House Fellows Seminar. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.
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Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952 and grew up in
Pasedena, California. He received his B.A. in English literature from
Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His
novel At Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar,
Straus
& Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. Flesh and Blood, another
novel,
followed in 1995. His work 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 Cunningham 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. He currently lives in New York City. A film version of The Hours is in production, directed by Stephen Daldry. It will feature Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep.
Work from the Writers House Fellows Seminar:
Writers House Fellows Program | Writers House Webcast Archive
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