Event Detail - Hammer Museum

DEC 09 TUE: 07:00pm; Hammer Readings

: Michael Cunningham Photo by Richard Phibbs.

Some Favorite Writers: Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, The Hours. A film version of The Hours was directed by Stephen Daldry and featured Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. His story “White Angel” was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and another story, “Mister Brother,” appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award (1995), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988), and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa (1982).

Some Favorite Writers: A series of readings organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.

Public programs are made possible by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Laura Donnelley, Bronya and Andrew Galef, and the Hammer Programs Committee.