George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel
Lincoln in the Bardo,
which won the Booker Prize, and the story collections
Pastoralia
and
Tenth of December,
which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and was included in
Time
's list of the one hundred most influential people in the world. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
