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George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to The Guardian 's weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008.
May 9, 2024 · George Saunders is an American writer best known for his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas, and grew up in Chicago. He received a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in 1981 and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1988.
George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim ...
Named by The New Yorker in 1999 as one of the best American writers under the age of forty, Saunders has published nine books, including the short-story collections “ CivilWarLand in Bad Decline...
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Oct 18, 2022 · But "Liberation Day" stands up to its predecessors. It is a short story collection that explores everything from misunderstandings to love affairs to lobotomized actors pinned to a wall and forced ...
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George Saunders is best known for his debut novel, "Lincoln in the Bardo" (2017), which earned him the Man Booker Prize. His short stories were collected in such books as "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (1996), "Pastoralia" (2000), "In Persuasion Nation" (2006), and "Tenth of December" (2013).
Photo: © Zach Krahmer. George Saunders is the author of twelve books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, and was a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade, from the fifty years since the Prize’s inception.
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