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Michael Cunningham
(Cincinnati,
Ohio, EUA, 1952) He studied
English literature at Stanford University, where he earned his degree. Later, at the University of Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), The Snow Queen, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the nonfiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His last book, A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu) was published in November 2015. He is a Senior Lecturer at Yale University and lives in New York.
The Hours (1998) I t won the 1999 Pullitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 film of the same name. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel Mrs. Dalloway . The situations of all three charac ters mirror situations experienced by Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway . The novel also mirrors its stream -ofconsciousness narrative style (a style pioneered by Woolf and James Joyce) in which the flowing thoughts and perceptions of protagonists are depicted as they would occur in real life, and the device in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway of placing the ac tion of the novel within the space of one day . Michael Cunningham took the novel's title, The Hours , from the original working title that Virginia Woolf used for Mrs. Dalloway . Source: wikipedia
“I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.”
To know more:
Michael Cunningham: A life in writing
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Hours - Trailer