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Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
in conversation with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney

As part of Pen, Paper and Palate presented in association with Ruda Beresford Dauphin

Monday, April 18 | 7:30 PM

“Michael Cunningham writes some of the most beautiful prose in contemporary American fiction.” - The Daily Beast

Widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham joins Frank Delaney in what will be an insightful and lively discussion about his celebrated writing career.

Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, the PEN/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Hours (adapted into the major motion picture), The Snow Queen, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His new book is A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu) transforms the fairy tales of our childhoods into stories of sublime revelation.

Ruda Dauphin is an accomplished Artistic Coordinator of Int'l Film Festivals and TV Documentaries, as well as the American Academy of Poets Annual evening at Lincoln Center. She has consulted on the PBS TV series, 100 Years of American Cinema, co-produced the Monte Carlo Film and Literary Forum for Prince Albert, is a voting member of BAfTA ( British Academy of Film and TV ) is an Officer of the French Medal of Arts and Letters and recipient of the Ellis Island Medal for Outstanding Achievement She is Exec. Director and creator of Pen, Paper, and Palate.

Frank Delaney is "The Most Eloquent Man in the World," says NPR. He is a writer, broadcaster, BBC host and Booker Prize Judge, with a career that has lasted more than three decades. An international-best-selling author himself, Frank has interviewed more than 3,500 of the world's most important writers.

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