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George Saunders is the author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia. (Publisher Provided) George Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas on December 2, 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering and a master's degree in creative writing from Syracuse University. He is a professor at Syracuse University and a writer of short stories, essays, novellas, and children's books. He won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004 His books include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, In Persuasion Nation, and Tenth of December: Stories, which won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2014. His debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, received the Man Booker Prize in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Lincoln in the Bardo… (more)

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Works by George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo 5,253 copies, 309 reviews

Tenth of December: Stories 3,555 copies, 172 reviews

Pastoralia 2,275 copies, 53 reviews

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 1,943 copies, 74 reviews

In Persuasion Nation 1,050 copies, 34 reviews

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class… 968 copies, 28 reviews

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil 855 copies, 28 reviews

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 773 copies, 28 reviews

The Braindead Megaphone 736 copies, 17 reviews

Fox 8 {story} 535 copies, 29 reviews

Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness 373 copies, 21 reviews

Liberation Day: Stories 335 copies, 15 reviews

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil / In Persuasion Nation 113 copies, 3 reviews

A Bee Stung Me, So I Killed All the Fish (Notes from the Homeland,… 21 copies

Escape from Spiderhead {story} 9 copies

Home 7 copies

Sea Oak 4 copies

Tenth of December {novelette} 2 copies, 1 review

Mother's Day (story & writer-interview, New Yorker) 2 copies

Commcomm 2 copies

Four Institutional Monologues (in McSweeney's 4 - EGGERS) 2 copies

Adams 2 copies

My Chivalric Fiasco 2 copies

Jon 2 copies

The Red Bow 2 copies

Puppy [short story] 2 copies

Winky (in Pastoralia) 1 copy

Love Letter 1 copy

La fine del firpo nel mondo 1 copy

Soyez gentils 1 copy, 1 review

The New Mecca (in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 - EGGERS) 1 copy

Le ragazze Semplica (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copy

Le cascate (in Pastoralia) 1 copy

Il parrucchiere infelice (in Pastoralia) 1 copy

Esortazione (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copy

Liner Notes 1 copy, 1 review

Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband (in Noisy Outlaws -… 1 copy

93990 {short story} 1 copy

Bohemians [short story] 1 copy

"In the Bus Reading," Biblio Magazine, p. 18, 3/1999, Fine in Wraps 1 copy

Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campain of Terror (CivilWarLand in Bad Decline) 1 copy

Croci (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copy

Giro d'onore (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copy

Al Roosten (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copy

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Also by George Saunders

The Collected Stories (Introduction, some editions) 911 copies, 14 reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Contributor) 748 copies, 10 reviews

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (Contributor) 744 copies, 19 reviews

The Book of Other People (Contributor) 717 copies, 14 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2005 (Contributor) 683 copies, 6 reviews

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't… (Contributor) 642 copies, 13 reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Contributor) 609 copies, 5 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Contributor) 550 copies, 7 reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Contributor) 463 copies, 9 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2012 (Contributor) 335 copies, 7 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Contributor) 329 copies, 6 reviews

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Contributor) 299 copies, 14 reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (Contributor) 298 copies, 8 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back,… (Contributor) 275 copies, 5 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2013 (Contributor) 260 copies, 5 reviews

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Contributor) 252 copies, 5 reviews

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (Contributor) 252 copies, 8 reviews

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (Contributor) 250 copies, 3 reviews

The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to… (Contributor) 233 copies, 3 reviews

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 232 copies, 9 reviews

The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (Contributor) 201 copies, 1 review

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 198 copies, 1 review

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Contributor) 194 copies, 7 reviews

The Secret History of Science Fiction (Contributor) 192 copies, 6 reviews

Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the… (Contributor) 163 copies, 6 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (Contributor) 161 copies, 3 reviews

The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (Contributor) 153 copies

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Contributor) 153 copies, 4 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco… (Contributor) 136 copies, 3 reviews

The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (Contributor) 135 copies, 1 review

Granta 108: Chicago (Contributor) 130 copies, 2 reviews

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review

Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review

Zadie Smith Introduces the Burned Children of America (Contributor) 115 copies, 1 review

Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 (Contributor) 114 copies, 4 reviews

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (Contributor) 114 copies, 1 review

Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature (Contributor) 103 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2021 (Contributor) 102 copies, 3 reviews

Prize Stories 1997: The O. Henry Awards (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews

American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (Contributor) 90 copies, 2 reviews

The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden,… (Contributor) 87 copies

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition (Contributor) 82 copies, 1 review

The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 (Contributor) 82 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 (Contributor) 79 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition (Contributor) 66 copies

Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters,… (Contributor) 65 copies, 4 reviews

Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (Contributor) 50 copies

Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a… (Contributor) 43 copies

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Contributor) 34 copies

The Best American Magazine Writing 2000 (Contributor) 26 copies

Escape: Stories of Getting Away (Contributor) 26 copies

The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 (Contributor) 23 copies, 2 reviews

A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors (Contributor) 12 copies

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Date of birth

1958-12-02

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male

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USA

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Birthplace

Amarillo, Texas, USA

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Amarillo, Texas, USA

Golden, Colorado, USA

Syracuse, New York, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Rochester, New York, USA

Education

Colorado School of Mines (B.S. | Geophysical Engineering)

Syracuse University (M.A. | Creative Writing)

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geophysical engineer

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Harvard Lampoon, Honorary Membership

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Short biography

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.