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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5.0

First published

2017

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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.