George Saunders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American short story writer
Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1958
Place of Birth: Amarillo, Texas, United States
Profession: writer, teacher, professor, translator, university teacher, journalist, geological engineer, children's writer, fantasy author, novelist, essayist, prosaist, short story writer, geophysicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About George Saunders
- 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.
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