Is a distinguished professor at Brooklyn College English Department. His
mother died during the making of The Hours (2002). Two weeks before her death from a terminal illness, Scott Rudin arranged a private screening of already-made scenes at her house.
Earned B.A., Stanford University, 1975; M.F.A., University of Iowa,
1980.
Won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Novel) for "The Hours."