American · b. 1969
Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999 for "The Hours," a novel that weaves together Virginia Woolf writing "Mrs. Dalloway," a 1950s housewife reading it, and a contemporary woman living a version of it. The American author writes about consciousness, time, and the way literature shapes lives. "A Home at the End of the World" and "Specimen Days" continue his experiments with fragmented narrative and literary inheritance.