Born: 1952, Cincinnati, OhioLives: Brooklyn, New York
Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, studied English literature at Stanford University and earned an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at Yale.
His novels include A Home at the End of the World (1990), Flesh and Blood (1995), The Hours (1998), Specimen Days (2005), By Nightfall (2010) and The Snow Queen (2014). The Hours, a tribute to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, was adapted into a 2002 film.