George Saunders is a prose writer from the United States, best known for Lincoln in the Bardo.
Quick Facts About George Saunders
Born
December 2, 1958
Nationality
United States
Profession
Prose Writer
Notable works
Lincoln in the Bardo
About George Saunders
He has also published several short‑story collections, including *CivilWarLand in Bad Decline* (1996) and *Tenth of December: Stories* (2013).
Awards & Honors
Library of Congress Prize for American FictionBooker PrizePEN/Malamud AwardGuggenheim FellowshipMacArthur Fellows ProgramNational Magazine AwardWorld Fantasy Award for Best Short FictionThe Writers' Prize
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![“[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/538/george-saunders-317_best-self_in-the-moment-of-reading-writer-and-read_1635082.jpg)
![“The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a certain level of patience would get through it and in the nick of time start to figure out what was going on. In a short book, you can do that.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f9/george-saunders-317_beginning_the-beginning-of-lincoln-in-the-bardo-is_3025267.jpg)