Michael Cunningham’s novels include The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, The Snow Queen and Day, as well as the collection Wild Swan and Other Tales and the non-fiction book Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and 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, Cunningham lives in New York City and is a professor in the practice of creative writing at Yale University.

‘The Hours is a book which heightens the perception of the reader. Cunningham’s craftsmanship is overwhelming’ Independent on Sunday‘An extremely moving, original and memorable novel' TLS‘Engrossing, imaginative and humane’ Observer‘The Hours refracts the lives of three women through the prism of a single day. Michael Cunningham evokes these three discrete characters with rare skill’ Financial Times‘The concept behind the novel is bold, the execution rich with feeling’ The Times‘A sensitive marriage of intelligence, integrity and finely textured emotions’ Sunday Times‘Cunningham has found an American tone which is exhilaratingly modern – tense, tender and completely without strain’ Guardian