George Saunders was born on December 2,1958 and is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels.
18 Facts About George Saunders
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George Saunders's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ.
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George Saunders contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to The Guardian's weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008.
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In 2006, George Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".
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George Saunders's story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007.
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George Saunders grew up in Oak Forest, Illinois, near Chicago, attended St Damian Catholic School and graduated from Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois.
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George Saunders spent some of his early twenties working as a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a slaughterhouse knuckle-puller.
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George Saunders recalled, "we [got] engaged in three weeks, a Syracuse Creative Writing Program record that, I believe, still stands".
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From 1989 to 1996, George Saunders worked as a technical writer and geophysical engineer for Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, New York.
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George Saunders worked for a time with an oil exploration crew in Sumatra in the early 1980s.
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Since 1997, George Saunders has been on the faculty of Syracuse University, teaching creative writing in the school's MFA program while continuing to publish fiction and nonfiction.
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George Saunders was a Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University and Hope College in 2010 and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series and Hope College's Visiting Writers Series.
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George Saunders has written a feature-length screenplay based on his short story "Sea Oak".
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George Saunders considered himself an Objectivist in his twenties but now views the philosophy unfavorably, likening it to neoconservatism.
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George Saunders won second prize in the 1997 O Henry Awards for his short story "The Falls", initially published in the January 22,1996, issue of The New Yorker.
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In 2001, George Saunders received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in Fiction from the Lannan Foundation.
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In 2009, George Saunders received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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In 2017, George Saunders published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize and was a New York Times bestseller.