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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is the American novelist behind The Hours (1998, Pulitzer winner, filmed by Stephen Daldry in 2002), A Home at the End of the World, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall. The Hours is one of the most-taught American novels of the last twenty-five years.

Reviews

2

Books on file

2

Avg rating

4.5

Years active

1998-2002

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What we have said about Michael Cunningham

  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham review. The 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that triangulates Virginia Woolf, a 1949 LA housewife, and a contemporary NYC editor. One of the great American literary novels of its decade.

  • Land's End by Michael Cunningham review. A 2002 walking guide and meditation on Provincetown, written by The Hours novelist. Short, lyrical, deeply Cape Cod.