Michael Cunningham

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and the nonfiction book Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorkerand The Best American Short Stories. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Raised in Los Angeles, Michael Cunningham lives in New York City, and is a senior lecturer at Yale University.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
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A Wild Swan
Michael Cunningham; Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours
A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate;...
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The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Hours
"Michael Cunningham's best novel in more than a decade."-Megan O'Grady, Vogue
It's...
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Land's End
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." -The Washington Post
"Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to...
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By Nightfall
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.
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Flesh and Blood
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy.
The epic tale of an American family,...
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Laws for Creations
Picador
Picador
In Walt Whitman, Michael Cunningham sees a poet whose vision of humanity is ecstatic, democratic, and sensuous. Just over a hundred years ago, Whitman celebrated America as it survived the Civil...
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Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost...
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The Hours
Picador Modern Classics
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood.
In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one...
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A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham
Picador
Picador
From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and...
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