Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is the author of several novels, including A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and The Snow Queen, as well as A Wild Swan and Other Tales, a collection of short fiction. He lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a novelist, cultural critic, and publisher, and the author of such groundbreaking novels as To the Lighthouse, The Years, and The Waves. Woolf was one of the most important and innovative writers of the twentieth century, and her essays include the canonical feminist text A Room of One’s Own.