Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels including A Home at the End of the World , Flesh and Blood , The Hours , Specimen Days , and non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown . The Hours was awarded both the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award and made into an internationally acclaimed, Oscar-winning film. His new novel, The Snow Queen , will be published in May of 2014. He lives in New York.