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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.
9 de mai. de 2024 · George Saunders is an American writer best known for his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas, and grew up in Chicago. He received a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in 1981 and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1988.
Family & Personal Life. George Saunders is married to Paula Redick and has two daughters, Caitlin and Alena, with her. Saunders holds a MacArthur Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship, which he received in 2006. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a member.
12 de out. de 2022 · There are going to be times, in the world and in your personal life, when things seem hopeful, when you’re newly convinced of your potential to rise to negative occasions or you’re newly ...
12 de out. de 2022 · George Saunders interview: "What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness” - New Statesman. Culture. Books. 12 October 2022. How George Saunders became literature’s Mr Nice Guy. The author of Lincoln in the Bardo on US politics, his “limited talent”, and the curse of being seen as the Tom Hanks of American letters. By Erica Wagner.
He was born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Oak Forest, Illinois. He has a degree in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines and has worked as a geophysical prospector in Indonesia, a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a technical writer in Rochester, New York.
9 de abr. de 2023 · In consonance with neurologist Oliver Sacks’s insight into narrative as the pillar of personal identity, Saunders examines the elemental impulse for storytelling as the basic organizing principle by which we govern our lives: The instant we wake the story begins: “Here I am. In my bed.
