Follow the journey as Michael Cunningham transforms himself from a college track coach into a full time professional poker player. See how the author deals with the ups and downs of being the 'most famous non-famous poker player in the world'. His journey will lead you from the outskirts of Mississippi to the Sin City of Las Vegas, and back again.
Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His new novel, The Snow Queen, will be published in May of 2014. He lives in New York, and teaches at Yale University.