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Pulitzer winner Michael Cunningham to read Oct. 15

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will present a free reading at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Lecture Room 1 of UI Van Allen Hall.

Cunningham has returned to the UI as an Ida Beam Visiting Professor in the Writers' Workshop.

In addition to his Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner winner The Hours, Cunningham has written Specimen Days, Flesh and Blood, Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown and At Home at the End of the World. He selected and introduced poems by Walt Whitman for the book Laws for Creations.

Both The Hours and At Home at the End of the World were made into feature films, and Flesh and Blood is being adapted for a Showtime miniseries.

Cunningham's work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review. "White Angel," a short story, was chosen for The Best American Short Stories, 1989, and another story, "Mister Brother," appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection.