Michael Cunningham (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Michael Cunningham, whose novels have won both critical acclaim and the loyalty of a wide popular audience, may owe a measure of his success to a background familiar in its broad contours to many members of the vast baby-boom generation. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the midst of those prosperous years following World War II. Cunningham’s father, who worked in advertising, moved his family to Europe briefly and then, when Michael was ten, to Pasadena, California, at just the time that many other American families were leaving the industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest...
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