George Saunders, author portrait
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George Saunders

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 Foundation. In 2006 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and was included in Time’s list of the one hundred most influential people in the world. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
Vigil
Liberation Day
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Fox 8
Lincoln in the Bardo
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Congratulations, by the way
Tenth of December
The Braindead Megaphone
In Persuasion Nation
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Pastoralia

Books

Vigil
Liberation Day
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Fox 8
Lincoln in the Bardo
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Congratulations, by the way
Tenth of December
The Braindead Megaphone
In Persuasion Nation
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Pastoralia

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