George Saunders
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''A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, ''CivilWarLand in Bad Decline'', was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".
His story collection ''In Persuasion Nation'' was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's ''Tenth of December: Stories'' won The Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel ''Lincoln in the Bardo'' won the 2017 Booker Prize. Provided by Wikipedia
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