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name: "Michael Cunningham"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 November 1952"
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updated: "2026-09-17T02:38:20.479961+00:00"
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# Michael Cunningham

Writer. Born 6 November 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 November 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

## Biography

Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born on 6 November 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he studied English literature at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

He is best known for his 1998 novel *The Hours*, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. His other credits include the novel *A Home at the End of the World* (1990) and screenplays for the film adaptations *Evening* (2007) and *A Home at the End of the World* (2004). He wrote a teleplay for an episode of the series *Masters of Sex* (2013).

Cunningham is professor in the practice of creative writing at Yale University.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Masters of Sex* (2013), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-sex.md)

## Also known for

- *The Hours* (2002), Novel
- *Evening* (2007), Screenplay
- *A Home at the End of the World* (2004), Writer
- *Tales of the City* (2019), Story

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