About
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer best known for his short-story collections and the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 and has won multiple National Magazine Awards; he teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. His notable collections include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and Tenth of December.
