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George Saunders

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George Saunders is a writer of fiction and essays. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo was published in 2017 and helped him earn the Man Booker Prize. His collection of short stories, Tenth of December, was the winner of the 2014 Story Prize and the 2014 Folio Prize. The recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Genius grant, his work appears regularly in the New Yorker, GQ, and Harpers Magazine, and has appeared in the O’Henry, Best American Short Story, Best Non-Required Reading, and Best American Travel Writing anthologies. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2013.

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Prizes, Awards & Fellowships
  • 2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction