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Michael Cunningham

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Keynoter: Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Hours

Michael Cunningham gets all the little things right in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours. Rarely missing a telling detail or a larger emotional truth, he masterfully explores the quiet, private moments of a life. 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 Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim.  Flesh and Blood, another novel, followed in 1995.  He received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, The Hours.  He has written one nonfiction book, Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown.  He is also the author of Specimen Days (June 2005). A film version of The Hours featured Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, and Meryl Streep. A film version of A Home at the End of the World featured Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, and Sissy Spacek. Cunningham and Susan Minot co-wrote the screenplay for her novel Evening.  Cunningham’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications. His story “White Angel” was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and another story, “Mister Brother,” appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection. Michael Cunningham is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award (1995), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988), and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa (1982).