What novel was the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the writer was inspired by Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway'?

'The Hours' is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.

The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel 'Mrs Dalloway'.

In Richmond, 1923, Author Virginia Woolf is writing 'Mrs Dalloway' and struggling with her own mental illness. In 1949 Los Angeles, Mrs Brown, wife of a World War II veteran, who is reading 'Mrs Dalloway', plans her husband's birthday party. In 1999 New York City, Clarissa Vaughan, a bisexual woman, plans a party to celebrate a major literary award received by her good friend and former lover, the poet Richard, who is dying of an AIDS-related illness.