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George Saunders

George Saunders

Saunders, George

December 2, 1958 (age 67)

Birth place: Amarillo, Texas, USA

32 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
1992 Short Fiction Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror Quarterly West, No. 34, Winter-Spring 1992
October 1992 148 Short Fiction Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz The New Yorker, October 5, 1992
August 1996 Review CivilWarLand in Bad Decline Vector 188
December 1996 66 Review CivilWarLand in Bad Decline Sci-Fi Universe #20, December 1996
January 1997 Short Fiction The 400-Pound CEO This American Life, January 24, 1997
December 1998 Short Fiction Sea Oak The New Yorker, December 28, 1998
June 1999 85 Short Fiction I Can Speak!™ The New Yorker, June 21, 1999
April 2000 68 Short Fiction Pastoralia The New Yorker, April 3, 2000
February 2001 140 Review Pastoralia Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2001
April 2001 57 Review The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip Locus, #483 April 2001
January 2002 78 Short Fiction My Flamboyant Grandson The New Yorker, January 28, 2002
January 2003 Short Fiction Jon The New Yorker, January 27, 2003
June 2003 91 Review Jon The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003
January 2004 Short Fiction Bohemians The New Yorker, January 19, 2004
August 2004 Short Fiction Adams The New Yorker, August 9, 2004
August 2005 Short Fiction CommComm The New Yorker, August 1, 2005
May 2006 47 Review The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2006
January 2007 45 Review In Persuasion Nation The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2007
May 2007 Short Fiction Puppy The New Yorker, May 28, 2007
February 2009 Short Fiction Al Roosten The New Yorker, February 2, 2009
June 2009 Review Jon StarShipSofa, No 87
December 2010 Short Fiction Escape from Spiderhead The New Yorker, December 20 & 27, 2010
June 2011 Short Fiction Home The New Yorker, June 13 & 20, 2011
October 2011 Short Fiction Tenth of December The New Yorker, October 31, 2011
October 2012 Short Fiction The Semplica-Girl Diaries The New Yorker, October 15, 2012
April 2013 41 Review Tenth of December Locus, #627 April 2013
July 2013 39 Review Tenth of December The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2013
May 2014 8 Interview George Saunders: Irrational Skills Locus, #640 May 2014
March 2017 20 Review Lincoln in the Bardo The New York Times Book Review, March 5, 2017
May 2017 38 Review Lincoln In the Bardo Locus, #676 May 2017
October 2022 8|8.1 Review Liberation Day: Stories The New York Times Book Review, October 16, 2022
September 2024 17 Review Lincoln in the Bardo The New York Times Book Review, September 1, 2024

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1999 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Sea Oak Nominee
2003 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction The Red Bow Nominee
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story My Flamboyant Grandson Nominee
2006 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction CommComm Winner
2011 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Home Nominee
2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Fiction Tenth of December Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Lincoln in the Bardo Finalist

In 1988, he graduated from Syracuse University with an MA in English, where he studied fiction writing under Douglas Unger and Tobias Wolff. Currently, he teaches Creative Writing at Syracuse University. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's.
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