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George Saunders is the author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia. (Publisher Provided) George Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas on December 2, 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering and a master's degree in creative writing from Syracuse University. He is a professor at Syracuse University and a writer of short stories, essays, novellas, and children's books. He won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004 His books include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, In Persuasion Nation, and Tenth of December: Stories, which won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2014. His debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, received the Man Booker Prize in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) — biografia da Lincoln in the Bardo… (altro)

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Opere di George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo 5,251 copie, 308 recensioni

Dieci dicembre 3,555 copie, 172 recensioni

Pastoralia 2,275 copie, 53 recensioni

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 1,943 copie, 74 recensioni

Nel paese della persuasione 1,050 copie, 34 recensioni

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class… 965 copie, 28 recensioni

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil 855 copie, 28 recensioni

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 773 copie, 28 recensioni

Il megafono spento: cronache da un mondo troppo rumoroso 736 copie, 17 recensioni

Fox 8 {story} 534 copie, 29 recensioni

L'egoismo è inutile. Elogio della gentilezza 373 copie, 21 recensioni

Liberation Day: Stories 334 copie, 15 recensioni

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil / In Persuasion Nation 113 copie, 3 recensioni

A Bee Stung Me, So I Killed All the Fish (Notes from the Homeland,… 21 copie

Escape from Spiderhead {story} 9 copie

Home 7 copie

Sea Oak 4 copie

Tenth of December {novelette} 2 copie, 1 recensione

Mother's Day (story & writer-interview, New Yorker) 2 copie

Commcomm 2 copie

Four Institutional Monologues (in McSweeney's 4 - EGGERS) 2 copie

Adams 2 copie

My Chivalric Fiasco 2 copie

Jon 2 copie

The Red Bow 2 copie

Puppy [short story] 2 copie

Winky (in Pastoralia) 1 copia

Love Letter 1 copia

La fine del firpo nel mondo 1 copia

Soyez gentils 1 copia, 1 recensione

The New Mecca (in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 - EGGERS) 1 copia

Le ragazze Semplica (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copia

Le cascate (in Pastoralia) 1 copia

Il parrucchiere infelice (in Pastoralia) 1 copia

Esortazione (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copia

Liner Notes 1 copia, 1 recensione

Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband (in Noisy Outlaws -… 1 copia

93990 {short story} 1 copia

Bohemians [short story] 1 copia

"In the Bus Reading," Biblio Magazine, p. 18, 3/1999, Fine in Wraps 1 copia

Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campain of Terror (CivilWarLand in Bad Decline) 1 copia

Croci (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copia

Giro d'onore (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copia

Al Roosten (in Dieci dicembre) 1 copia

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The Collected Stories (Introduzione, alcune edizioni) 911 copie, 14 recensioni

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Collaboratore) 748 copie, 10 recensioni

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (Collaboratore) 744 copie, 19 recensioni

The Book of Other People (Collaboratore) 717 copie, 14 recensioni

The Best American Short Stories 2005 (Collaboratore) 684 copie, 6 recensioni

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't… (Collaboratore) 642 copie, 13 recensioni

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Collaboratore) 609 copie, 5 recensioni

The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Collaboratore) 550 copie, 7 recensioni

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Collaboratore) 461 copie, 9 recensioni

The Best American Short Stories 2012 (Collaboratore) 335 copie, 7 recensioni

The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Collaboratore) 329 copie, 6 recensioni

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (Collaboratore) 298 copie, 8 recensioni

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Collaboratore) 298 copie, 14 recensioni

McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back,… (Collaboratore) 275 copie, 5 recensioni

The Best American Short Stories 2013 (Collaboratore) 261 copie, 5 recensioni

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Collaboratore) 252 copie, 5 recensioni

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (Collaboratore) 252 copie, 8 recensioni

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (Collaboratore) 250 copie, 3 recensioni

The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to… (Collaboratore) 233 copie, 3 recensioni

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (Collaboratore) 232 copie, 9 recensioni

The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (Collaboratore) 201 copie, 1 recensione

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Collaboratore) 198 copie, 1 recensione

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Collaboratore) 194 copie, 7 recensioni

The Secret History of Science Fiction (Collaboratore) 192 copie, 6 recensioni

Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the… (Collaboratore) 163 copie, 6 recensioni

McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (Collaboratore) 161 copie, 3 recensioni

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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Collaboratore) 153 copie, 4 recensioni

McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco… (Collaboratore) 136 copie, 3 recensioni

The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (Collaboratore) 135 copie, 1 recensione

Granta 108: Chicago (Collaboratore) 130 copie, 2 recensioni

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Collaboratore) 126 copie, 1 recensione

Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards (Collaboratore) 120 copie, 1 recensione

Burned children of America (Collaboratore) 115 copie, 1 recensione

Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 (Collaboratore) 114 copie, 4 recensioni

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American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (Collaboratore) 90 copie, 2 recensioni

The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden,… (Collaboratore) 87 copie

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 (Collaboratore) 79 copie

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition (Collaboratore) 66 copie

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Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (Collaboratore) 50 copie

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Data di nascita

1958-12-02

Data di morte

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Sesso

male

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USA

Nazione (per mappa)

Luogo di nascita

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Amarillo, Texas, USA

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Causa della morte

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Amarillo, Texas, USA

Golden, Colorado, USA

Syracuse, New York, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Rochester, New York, USA

Istruzione

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Colorado School of Mines (B.S. | Geophysical Engineering)

Syracuse University (M.A. | Creative Writing)

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geophysical engineer

technical writer

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Harvard Lampoon, Honorary Membership

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MacArthur Fellowship (2006)

Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)

Harvard Lampoon Good American Satirist Award (2002)

Lannen Foundation Fellowship (2002)

Syracuse University Fellow (1986-1988)

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Breve biografia

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George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.

A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006 Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".

His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.