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Michael Cunningham
Birth at
6 November 1952
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American writer Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 6, 1952. He spent his childhood in Posadena, California. After high school, Michael entered Stanford University, graduating in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. Five years later, Michael Cunningham graduated from the University of Iowa. In 1982, he received the National Contribution Award to the University of Iowa. In the late seventies, his works began to appear in literary magazines, and in 1989 the
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American writer Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 6, 1952. He spent his childhood in Posadena, California. After high school, Michael entered Stanford University, graduating in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. Five years later, Michael Cunningham graduated from the University of Iowa. In 1982, he received the National Contribution Award to the University of Iowa.
In the late seventies, his works began to appear in literary magazines, and in 1989 the novella The White Angel entered the collection of the best stories. Later, this novella became a chapter in the novel “House at the End of the World”.
Michael Cunningham’s first novel, House at the End of the World, was published in a small print run in 1990. The author himself considers the work unsuccessful, and at his insistence the novel is not republished. In 2004, Michael Mayer filmed the novel, and the author wrote the script for the film. In 1995 he published his second novel “Flesh and Blood”, which tells about emigration, alternative culture, AIDS, homosexuality and death.
In 1998, Cunningham’s most famous work was published, The Clock. The novel describes one day in the life of writer Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughan, a lesbian from New York and Laura Brown, a housewife from Los Angeles. The fate of these women in some incomprehensible way connected the book of Wolfe. For the novel The Clock, Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. In 2002, Stephen Daldry filmed the novel, and the film was a huge success.
Michael Kinnisham's fourth novel was published in 2005. The work "Selected Days" includes three parts that are connected by the personality of Walt Whitman, an American poet, characters (boy, woman, man) and the place of action - the city of New York. The first part describes the mystical story that takes place during the industrial revolution, the second – the consequences of the September 11 terrorist attack experienced by New York, and the third – the events of the post-apocalyptic future. In 2010, another book by the author “The Night Begins” was published. /