Author
George Saunders
George Saunders is the American short-story writer and novelist behind Lincoln in the Bardo (2017, Man Booker Prize), Tenth of December (2013), Pastoralia (2000), the Liberation Day (2022) collection, and the writing-craft volume A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021). Saunders teaches in the Syracuse MFA program.
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Years active
2013-2017
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Our reviews of George Saunders's work
Tenth of December
by George Saunders
Tenth of December by George Saunders 2013 review. Ten stories of literary fantasy and American social satire. Story Prize winner and Saunders's structural breakthrough.
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2017 review. Abraham Lincoln's eleven-year-old son Willie dies and Lincoln returns to the Georgetown cemetery. The Bardo is populated by the cemetery's reluctant dead. Man Booker Prize 2017.
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Tenth of December by George Saunders 2013 review. Ten stories of literary fantasy and American social satire. Story Prize winner and Saunders's structural breakthrough.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2017 review. Abraham Lincoln's eleven-year-old son Willie dies and Lincoln returns to the Georgetown cemetery. The Bardo is populated by the cemetery's reluctant dead. Man Booker Prize 2017.