Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days and By Nightfall. He lives in New York.
A writer of great gifts. Cunningham's voice reaches that lyrical beauty in which even the grimmest events suggest their potential for grace The New York Times Book Review Intensely, almost painfully intimate. A superb and major novel -- David Leavitt As well as being fluent and attractive, this intimate saga of our times is immensely wise Mail on Sunday Cunningham writes with power and delicacy of his three characters. Yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art The Los Angeles Times Extremely intelligent, moving and accomplished. Cunningham has mastered the art of evoking the richness of domestic lives Sunday Times