Michael cunningham author biography format

Recent critical praise for Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1999, came as no surprise to those who followed his progression since the publication of A Home at the End of the World in 1990.

The Hours addresses themes that have long been preoccupations of the author's: adopted social roles that end up owning us; the common desire to flee from our lives; the solution to that desire provided by suicide, but also by creativity; and the strained role of family in the late twentieth century.

In addition, these universal issues are often explored within the further complicating frame of homosexuality.

Michael cunningham author biography

The manner in which Cunningham subtly inserts the many references to homosexuality has an effortless, natural quality. As some critics have noted, Cunningham's treatment of gay themes could only be a recent literary manifestation.

This is no longer the "fearful closet" novel of the 1960s nor the "defiant ghetto" writing o