MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM‘s novels include The Hours, a New York Times bestseller and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award; A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen; and the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales and the nonfiction 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.