George Saunders is the author of four short fiction collections, an essay collection, two novellas, two screenplays, and a novel. He received an MFA from Syracuse University, where he has taught writing since 1996. Saunders has received numerous awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo, and the 2016 Narrative Storyteller Award. He was elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and lives in Santa Cruz, California, and Syracuse, New York.
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