Michael Cunningham: 2011 National Book Festival
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Channel: Library of Congress · 2011 · Education
Michael Cunningham appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels "A Home at the End of the World," "Flesh and Blood," "The Hours" (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize) and "Specimen Days." "The Hours" became an Academy Award-winning film starring Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. In 1993 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1998 a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Yale University. Cunningham's new book is "By Nightfall" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5285.
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