About

Known credits:
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Birthday:
1958-12-02
Place of birth:
Amarillo, Texas, USA
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George Saunders

Overview

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 weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.

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. In 2006 he 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 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

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Known for

Writing
2022 Spiderhead Writing Short Story 58
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2019 Adams Writing Writer 59
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2017 Sea Oak Writing Short Story 69
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2017 Exhortation Writing Story N/A
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2011 Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz Writing Short Story N/A
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2011 Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz Writing Writer N/A
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The Semplica-Girl Diaries Writing Story N/A
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Production
2017 Sea Oak Production Executive Producer 69
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