Michael Cunningham 

Michael Cunningham is the author of seven novels: A Home at the End of the World (1990), Flesh and Blood (1995), The Hours (1998), Specimen Days (2005), By Nightfall (2010), The Snow Queen (2014), and Day (2024). A collection of short stories, A Wild Swan and Other Tales, was published in 2016. A work of non-fiction, Land’s End, appeared in 2003, and a new non-fiction book, Unsayable, is forthcoming in the summer of 2026. The Hours received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award. It was adapted into a film in 2002, featuring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, who won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Cunningham has received grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University.