Author

Books by George Saunders

George Saunders is an American author best known for his darkly comic short fiction, collected in volumes including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Tenth of December, and Liberation Day. He taught creative writing at Syracuse University for decades. Lincoln in the Bardo, published in 2017, was his first novel and won the Man Booker Prize. He has also written the craft essay collection A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, which emerged from his graduate fiction teaching. He is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive stylists in American short fiction.