Author

Books by George Saunders

George Saunders is an American fiction writer and essayist, the author of the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation, and Tenth of December, as well as the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2017. He has taught in the MFA program at Syracuse University since 1996. He has been a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2006. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain draws directly on materials he developed for his graduate fiction workshop.