George Saunders

George Saunders

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Author

George Saunders is the author of two short-story collections, Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Heming-way Award. His work has received two National Magazine Awards and three times been included in O. Henry Awards collections. In 1999 he was chosen by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers age forty and under. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

Related

Works
Image of Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
Interviews
George Saunders A Haunting Story of Lincoln, Love and Loss

2017 Man Booker Prize Winner George Saunders talks about his creative process, his fledgling Buddhist practice, and the enduring fascination with Lincoln and the Civil War.
George Saunders George Saunders on 'I Will Bear Witness'

The author of "Lincoln in the Bardo" recommends Victor Klemperer's two-volume diary that reads as a slow-motion picture of what the Holocaust looked like before it was known Holocaust.
Shows
RR cafe sign Story Worlds
Websites
georgesaundersbooks.com