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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جورج ساندرز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="جورج ساندرز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81" title="Джордж Сондърс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джордж Сондърс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders_(Schriftsteller)" title="George Saunders (Schriftsteller) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="George Saunders (Schriftsteller)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جورج ساندرز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جورج ساندرز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80_%EC%86%90%EB%8D%94%EC%8A%A4" title="조지 손더스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="조지 손더스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%BB_%D5%8D%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BD" title="Ջորջ Սոնդերս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջորջ Սոնդերս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8C%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಜಾರ್ಜ್ ಸೌಂಡರ್ಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಜಾರ್ಜ್ ಸೌಂಡರ್ಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%9F_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Џорџ Сондерс – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Џорџ Сондерс" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="जॉर्ज साँडर्स – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="जॉर्ज साँडर्स" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)" title="جورج سوندرز (صحفى) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جورج سوندرز (صحفى)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA" title="ジョージ・ソーンダーズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジョージ・ソーンダーズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%8C%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9C_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%8C%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC" title="ਜੌਰਜ ਸੌਂਡਰਜ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਜੌਰਜ ਸੌਂਡਰਜ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جارج سانڈرز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="جارج سانڈرز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders_(pisarz)" title="George Saunders (pisarz) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="George Saunders (pisarz)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6" title="Сондерс, Джордж – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Сондерс, Джордж" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%9F_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Џорџ Сондерс – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Џорџ Сондерс" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="George Saunders" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" 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Saunders</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Saunders_at_2023_National_Book_Festival_(53123054136)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Saunders in 2023"><img alt="Saunders in 2023" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/George_Saunders_at_2023_National_Book_Festival_%2853123054136%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-George_Saunders_at_2023_National_Book_Festival_%2853123054136%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/George_Saunders_at_2023_National_Book_Festival_%2853123054136%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-George_Saunders_at_2023_National_Book_Festival_%2853123054136%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, 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works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/CivilWarLand_in_Bad_Decline" title="CivilWarLand in Bad Decline">CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</a></i> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Pastoralia" title="Pastoralia">Pastoralia</a></i> (2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December</a></i> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i> (2017)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program" title="MacArthur Fellows Program">MacArthur Fellowship</a> <br /> 2006 <br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PEN/Malamud_Award" title="PEN/Malamud Award">PEN/Malamud Award</a> <br /> 2013 <br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folio_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Folio Prize">Folio Prize</a> <br /> 2014 <i><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December: Stories</a></span></i> <br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> <br /> 2017 <i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i> <br /></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Paula Redick<sup id="cite_ref-timeline_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeline-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2<sup id="cite_ref-NYTMag_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTMag-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.georgesaundersbooks.com">www<wbr />.georgesaundersbooks<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Saunders</b> (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/McSweeney%27s" title="McSweeney's">McSweeney's</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/GQ_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="GQ (magazine)">GQ</a></i>. He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>'s weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A professor at <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>, Saunders won the <a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Magazine Award">National Magazine Award</a> for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="O. Henry Awards">O. Henry Awards</a> in 1997. His first story collection, <i>CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</i>, was a finalist for the 1996 <a href="/wiki/PEN/Hemingway_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="PEN/Hemingway Award">PEN/Hemingway Award</a>. In 2006, Saunders received a <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Foundation" title="MacArthur Foundation">MacArthur Fellowship</a> and won the <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94Short_Fiction" title="World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction">World Fantasy Award</a> for his short story "CommComm".<sup id="cite_ref-WFA_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WFA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His story collection <i>In Persuasion Nation</i> was a finalist for <a href="/wiki/Story_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Story Prize">The Story Prize</a> in 2007. In 2013, he won the <a href="/wiki/PEN/Malamud_Award" title="PEN/Malamud Award">PEN/Malamud Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a finalist for the <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a>. Saunders's <i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December: Stories</a></i> won <a href="/wiki/The_Story_Prize" title="The Story Prize">The Story Prize</a> for short-story collections<sup id="cite_ref-thestoryprize_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thestoryprize-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the inaugural (2014) <a href="/wiki/The_Writers%27_Prize" title="The Writers' Prize">Folio Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ron_Charles_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ron_Charles-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-foliopdf_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foliopdf-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His novel <i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i> won the 2017 <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Saunders was born in <a href="/wiki/Amarillo,_Texas" title="Amarillo, Texas">Amarillo, Texas</a>. He grew up in <a href="/wiki/Oak_Forest,_Illinois" title="Oak Forest, Illinois">Oak Forest, Illinois</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, attended St. Damian Catholic School and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Oak_Forest_High_School" title="Oak Forest High School">Oak Forest High School</a> in Oak Forest, Illinois. He spent some of his early twenties working as a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse" title="Slaughterhouse">slaughterhouse</a> knuckle-puller.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-salon_2000_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salon_2000-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1981, he received a B.S. in <a href="/wiki/Geoprofessions" title="Geoprofessions">geophysical engineering</a> from <a href="/wiki/Colorado_School_of_Mines" title="Colorado School of Mines">Colorado School of Mines</a> in <a href="/wiki/Golden,_Colorado" title="Golden, Colorado">Golden, Colorado</a>. Of his scientific background, Saunders has said, "any claim I might make to originality in my fiction is really just the result of this odd background: basically, just me working inefficiently, with flawed tools, in a mode I don't have sufficient background to really understand. Like if you put a welder to designing dresses."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1988, he was awarded an <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">M.A.</a> in creative writing from <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>, where he worked with <a href="/wiki/Tobias_Wolff" title="Tobias Wolff">Tobias Wolff</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-writing_a_legacy_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-writing_a_legacy-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MFA_D.O._2024_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MFA_D.O._2024-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Syracuse, he met Paula Redick, a fellow writer, whom he married. Saunders recalled, "we [got] engaged in three weeks, a Syracuse Creative Writing Program record that, I believe, still stands".<sup id="cite_ref-timeline_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeline-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of his influences,<sup id="cite_ref-writing_a_legacy_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-writing_a_legacy-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saunders has written: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I really love Russian writers, especially from the 19th and early 20th Century: <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol" title="Nikolai Gogol">Gogol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Tolstoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" title="Anton Chekhov">Chekhov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Babel" title="Isaac Babel">Babel</a>. I love the way they take on the big topics. I'm also inspired by a certain absurdist comic tradition that would include influences like <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniil_Kharms" title="Daniil Kharms">Daniil Kharms</a>, <a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho Marx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monty_Python" title="Monty Python">Monty Python</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Handey" title="Jack Handey">Jack Handey</a>, etc. And then, on top of that, I love the strain of minimalist American fiction writing: <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson" title="Sherwood Anderson">Sherwood Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Carver" title="Raymond Carver">Raymond Carver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tobias_Wolff" title="Tobias Wolff">Tobias Wolff</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background_and_work">Background and work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Background and work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1989 to 1996, Saunders worked as a <a href="/wiki/Technical_writer" title="Technical writer">technical writer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geoprofessions" title="Geoprofessions">geophysical engineer</a> for Radian International, an <a href="/wiki/Environmental_engineering" title="Environmental engineering">environmental engineering</a> firm in <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester, New York</a>. He also worked for a time with an <a href="/wiki/Hydrocarbon_exploration" title="Hydrocarbon exploration">oil exploration</a> crew in <a href="/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra">Sumatra</a> in the early 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-salon_2000_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salon_2000-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 1997, Saunders has been on the faculty of <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>, teaching <a href="/wiki/Creative_writing" title="Creative writing">creative writing</a> in the school's <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">MFA</a> program in addition to writing fiction and nonfiction.<sup id="cite_ref-writing_a_legacy_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-writing_a_legacy-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MFA_D.O._2024_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MFA_D.O._2024-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-D.O._Alumni_Academy_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D.O._Alumni_Academy-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, he was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> and a $500,000 <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" title="MacArthur Fellowship">MacArthur Fellowship</a>. He was a Visiting Writer at <a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University">Wesleyan University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hope_College" title="Hope College">Hope College</a> in 2010 and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series and Hope College's Visiting Writers Series. His nonfiction collection, <i>The Braindead Megaphone</i>, was published in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Saunders's fiction often focuses on the absurdity of <a href="/wiki/Consumerism" title="Consumerism">consumerism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corporate_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate culture">corporate culture</a>, and the role of <a href="/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">mass media</a>. While multiple reviewers have noted his writing's <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> tone, his work also raises moral and philosophical questions. The <a href="/wiki/Tragicomedy" title="Tragicomedy">tragicomic</a> element in his writing has earned Saunders comparisons to <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>, whose work has inspired him.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ben_Stiller" title="Ben Stiller">Ben Stiller</a> bought the <a href="/wiki/Film_rights" title="Film rights">film rights</a> to <i><a href="/wiki/CivilWarLand_in_Bad_Decline" title="CivilWarLand in Bad Decline">CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</a></i> in the late 1990s; as of 2007<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the project was in development by Stiller's company, <a href="/wiki/Red_Hour_Productions" title="Red Hour Productions">Red Hour Productions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saunders has also written a <a href="/wiki/Feature_film" title="Feature film">feature-length</a> <a href="/wiki/Screenplay" title="Screenplay">screenplay</a> based on his short story "Sea Oak".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Saunders considered himself an <a href="/wiki/Objectivism" title="Objectivism">Objectivist</a> in his twenties but now views the philosophy unfavorably, likening it to <a href="/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">neoconservatism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a student of <a href="/wiki/Nyingma" title="Nyingma">Nyingma</a> Buddhism.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTMag_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTMag-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Saunders has won the <a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Awards" title="National Magazine Awards">National Magazine Award</a> for Fiction four times: in 1994, for "The 400-Pound CEO" (published in <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's</a></i>); in 1996, for "Bounty" (also published in <i>Harper's</i>); in 2000, for "The Barber's Unhappiness" (published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>); and in 2004, for "The Red Bow" (published in <i><a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saunders won second prize in the 1997 <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="O. Henry Awards">O. Henry Awards</a> for his short story "The Falls", initially published in the January 22, 1996, issue of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His first short-story collection, <i>CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</i>, was a finalist for the 1996 <a href="/wiki/PEN/Hemingway_Award_for_Debut_Novel" title="PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel">PEN/Hemingway Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001, Saunders received a <a href="/wiki/Lannan_Literary_Awards" title="Lannan Literary Awards">Lannan Literary Fellowship</a> in Fiction from the <a href="/wiki/Lannan_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Lannan Foundation">Lannan Foundation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, Saunders was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also that year, he received a <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program" title="MacArthur Fellows Program">MacArthur Fellowship</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his short-story collection <i><a href="/wiki/In_Persuasion_Nation" title="In Persuasion Nation">In Persuasion Nation</a></i> was a finalist for <a href="/wiki/The_Story_Prize" title="The Story Prize">The Story Prize</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he won the <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94Short_Fiction" title="World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction">World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction</a> for his short story "CommComm", first published in the August 1, 2005, issue of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WFA_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WFA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Saunders received an award from the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, Saunders won the <a href="/wiki/PEN/Malamud_Award" title="PEN/Malamud Award">PEN/Malamud Award</a> for Excellence in the Short Story.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His short-story collection <i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December</a></i> won the 2013 <a href="/wiki/The_Story_Prize" title="The Story Prize">Story Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thestoryprize_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thestoryprize-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The collection also won the inaugural <a href="/wiki/The_Writers%27_Prize" title="The Writers' Prize">Folio Prize</a> in 2014, "the first major English-language book prize open to writers from around the world".<sup id="cite_ref-Ron_Charles_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ron_Charles-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2014short_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2014short-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-foliopdf_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foliopdf-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The collection was also a finalist for the <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2013" by the editors of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a January 2013 cover story, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Magazine" title="The New York Times Magazine">The New York Times Magazine</a></i> called <i>Tenth of December</i> "the best book you'll read this year".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the stories in the collection, "Home", was a 2011 <a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award" title="Bram Stoker Award">Bram Stoker Award</a> finalist.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, Saunders published his first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i>, which won the <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> and was a <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times </i>bestseller</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Award </th> <th>Category </th> <th>Result </th> <th>Ref </th></tr> <tr> <th>1994 </th> <td>"The 400-Pound CEO" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Magazine Award">National Magazine Award</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">Fiction </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">1996 </th> <td>"Bounty" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Magazine Award">National Magazine Award</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/CivilWarLand_in_Bad_Decline" title="CivilWarLand in Bad Decline">CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/PEN/Hemingway_Award_for_Debut_Novel" title="PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel">PEN/Hemingway Award</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>1997 </th> <td>"The Falls" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Award" title="O. Henry Award">O. Henry Awards</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">2nd prize </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2000 </th> <td>"The Barber's Unhappiness" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Magazine Award">National Magazine Award</a> </td> <td>Fiction </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2003 </th> <td rowspan="2">"The Red Bow" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award" title="Bram Stoker Award">Bram Stoker Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Short_Fiction" title="Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction">Short Fiction</a> </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2004 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Magazine_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Magazine Award">National Magazine Award</a> </td> <td>Fiction </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2006 </th> <td><i><a href="/wiki/In_Persuasion_Nation" title="In Persuasion Nation">In Persuasion Nation</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Story_Prize" title="The Story Prize">The Story Prize</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"CommComm" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94Short_Fiction" title="World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction">Short Story</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2011 </th> <td>"Home" </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award" title="Bram Stoker Award">Bram Stoker Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Short_Fiction" title="Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction">Short Fiction</a> </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2013 </th> <td rowspan="4"><i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December: Stories</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Goodreads_Choice_Awards" title="Goodreads Choice Awards">Goodreads Choice Award</a> </td> <td>Fiction </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated—10th </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Story_Prize" title="The Story Prize">The Story Prize</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2014 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Fiction" title="National Book Award for Fiction">Fiction</a> </td> <td style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Shortlisted </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Writers%27_Prize" title="The Writers' Prize">The Writers' Prize</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2017 </th> <td rowspan="3"><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2018 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award_for_Best_First_Novel" title="Locus Award for Best First Novel">First Novel</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated—4th </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Premio_Gregor_von_Rezzori" title="Premio Gregor von Rezzori">Premio Gregor von Rezzori</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2023 </th> <td>— </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Prize_for_American_Fiction" title="Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction">Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_honors">Other honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lannan_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Lannan Foundation">Lannan Foundation</a> – Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2001</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program" title="MacArthur Fellows Program">MacArthur Fellowship</a>, 2006</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a>, 2006</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a>, Academy Award, 2009</li> <li><a href="/wiki/PEN/Malamud_Award" title="PEN/Malamud Award">PEN/Malamud Award</a> for Excellence in the Short Story, 2013</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review"><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></a>'s "10 Best Books of 2013", <i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December: Stories</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, Elected as Member, 2014</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a>, Inducted as Member, 2018<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_House_of_Culture_(Stockholm)" title="The House of Culture (Stockholm)">The House of Culture (Stockholm)</a> International Literary Prize, 2018</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2017</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Story_collections">Story collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Story collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/CivilWarLand_in_Bad_Decline" title="CivilWarLand in Bad Decline">CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</a></i> (1996) (<a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short stories</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Novella" title="Novella">novella</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pastoralia" title="Pastoralia">Pastoralia</a></i> (2000) (short stories and a novella)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Persuasion_Nation" title="In Persuasion Nation">In Persuasion Nation</a></i> (2006) (short stories)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December: Stories</a></i> (2013) (short stories)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liberation_Day:_Stories" title="Liberation Day: Stories">Liberation Day: Stories</a></i> (2022) (short stories)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brief_and_Frightening_Reign_of_Phil" title="The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil">The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil</a></i> (2005, novella)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i> (2017)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Nonfiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2007" class="citation book cs1">— (2007). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Braindead_Megaphone" title="The Braindead Megaphone">The Braindead Megaphone</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Braindead+Megaphone&rft.date=2007&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2021" class="citation book cs1">— (2021). <i>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Swim+in+a+Pond+in+the+Rain%3A+In+Which+Four+Russians+Give+a+Master+Class+on+Writing%2C+Reading%2C+and+Life&rft.date=2021&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-D.O._Alumni_Academy_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D.O._Alumni_Academy-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essays_and_reporting">Essays and reporting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Essays and reporting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2006" class="citation book cs1">— (2006). <i>A bee stung me, so I killed all the fish (notes from the Homeland 2003–2006)</i>. Riverhead Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+bee+stung+me%2C+so+I+killed+all+the+fish+%28notes+from+the+Homeland+2003%E2%80%932006%29&rft.pub=Riverhead+Books&rft.date=2006&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2009" class="citation journal cs1">— (Autumn 2009). "The View from the South Side, 1970". <i>Granta</i> (108): 120–122.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Granta&rft.atitle=The+View+from+the+South+Side%2C+1970&rft.ssn=fall&rft.issue=108&rft.pages=120-122&rft.date=2009&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2014" class="citation web cs1">— (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/george-saunderss-advice-to-graduates/">"Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Congratulations%2C+by+the+Way%3A+Some+Thoughts+on+Kindness&rft.date=2014&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2F6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F07%2F31%2Fgeorge-saunderss-advice-to-graduates%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2016" class="citation magazine cs1">— (July 11–18, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/george-saunders-goes-to-trump-rallies">"Trump days: up close with the candidate and his crowds"</a>. American Chronicles. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 92, no. 21. pp. 50–61.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Trump+days%3A+up+close+with+the+candidate+and+his+crowds&rft.volume=92&rft.issue=21&rft.pages=50-61&rft.date=2016-07-11%2F2016-07-18&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2016%2F07%2F11%2Fgeorge-saunders-goes-to-trump-rallies&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anthologies">Anthologies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Anthologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts</i>, edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer (2012)</li> <li><i>Cappelens Forslags Conversational Lexicon Volume II</i>, edited by Pil Cappelen Smith, published by Cappelens Forslag (2016) ISBN 978-82-999643-4-0</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interviews">Interviews</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Interviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/choose-your-own-adventure-a-conversation-with-jennifer-egan-and-george-saunders.html">Choose Your Own Adventure: A Conversation With Jennifer Egan and George Saunders</a>". <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, November 2015.</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://imagejournal.org/article/a-conversation-with-george-saunders/">A Conversation with George Saunders</a>". <i>Image Journal</i>, 2016.</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7506/the-art-of-fiction-no-245-george-saunders">George Saunders: The Art of Fiction No. 245</a>". <i>The Paris Review</i>, issue 231 (Winter 2019).</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://believermag.com/logger/an-interview-with-george-saunders/">An Interview with George Saunders</a>". <i>Believer Magazine</i>, January 2021.</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://maydaymagazine.com/saunders-swim-pond-rain/">George Saunders on <i>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.</i></a>" <i>Mayday</i>, March 2021.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="width:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="25%">Title </th> <th>Year </th> <th>First published </th> <th>Reprinted/collected </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>I can speak!™ </td> <td>1999 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George1999" class="citation magazine cs1">Saunders, George (June 21–28, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/06/21/i-can-speak">"I can speak!™"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=I+can+speak%21%E2%84%A2&rft.date=1999-06-21%2F1999-06-28&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F1999%2F06%2F21%2Fi-can-speak&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Persuasion_Nation" title="In Persuasion Nation">In Persuasion Nation</a></i></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders,_George2019" class="citation magazine cs1">Saunders, George (December 30, 2019). "I can speak!™". <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 95, no. 42. pp. 57–58.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=I+can+speak%21%E2%84%A2&rft.volume=95&rft.issue=42&rft.pages=57-58&rft.date=2019-12-30&rft.au=Saunders%2C+George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Saunders" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </td> <td>Often acclaimed as among his best short stories.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Very_Persistent_Gappers_of_Frip" title="The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip">The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip</a></i> </td> <td>2000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>Children's book </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Four Institutional Monologues" </td> <td>2000 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Timothy_McSweeney%27s_Quarterly_Concern" title="Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern">McSweeney's</a></i> </td> <td>4th story included in <i><a href="/wiki/In_Persuasion_Nation" title="In Persuasion Nation">In Persuasion Nation</a></i> </td> <td>Originally released as a booklet<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brief_and_Frightening_Reign_of_Phil" title="The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil">The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil</a></i> </td> <td>2005 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>Novella </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Fox 8"<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>2013, 2018 </td> <td> </td> <td><i>Fox 8</i> (2018) </td> <td>First released as an e-book in 2013, the story was later published in hardcover by Random House in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"A Two-Minute Note to the Future" </td> <td>2014 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>Aphoristic essay on brown paper <a href="/wiki/Chipotle" title="Chipotle">Chipotle</a> bag.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Love Letter" </td> <td>2020 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i>, April 6, 2020 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_American_Short_Stories_2021" title="The Best American Short Stories 2021">The Best American Short Stories 2021</a></i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Thursday" </td> <td>2023 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"The Third Premier" </td> <td>2024 </td> <td><i>The New Yorker</i><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td> <td>A flash fiction </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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story he published in 1986, titled "A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room," which he "used ... to get into Syracuse. This story was originally published in <i><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwest Review">Northwest Review</a></i>, Volume 24, Number 2, in 1986."</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Saunders&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-timeline-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-timeline_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-timeline_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaunders" class="citation magazine cs1">Saunders, George. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-writing-education-a-timeline">"My Writing Education: A Time Line"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip">The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip</a></i> (2000, novella)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brief_and_Frightening_Reign_of_Phil" title="The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil">The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil</a></i> (2005, novella)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Persuasion_Nation" title="In Persuasion Nation">In Persuasion Nation</a></i> (2006, short stories)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tenth_of_December:_Stories" title="Tenth of December: Stories">Tenth of December: Stories</a></i> (2013, short stories)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i> (2017, novel)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liberation_Day:_Stories" title="Liberation Day: Stories">Liberation Day: Stories</a></i> (2022, short stories)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nonfiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" 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H. Newby">P. H. Newby</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Something_to_Answer_For" title="Something to Answer For">Something to Answer For</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Bernice_Rubens" title="Bernice Rubens">Bernice Rubens</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Elected_Member" title="The Elected Member">The Elected Member</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lost_Man_Booker_Prize" title="Lost Man Booker Prize">1970 Lost Prize</a>: <a href="/wiki/J._G._Farrell" title="J. G. Farrell">J. G. Farrell</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Troubles_(novel)" title="Troubles (novel)">Troubles</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/V._S._Naipaul" title="V. S. Naipaul">V. S. Naipaul</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/In_a_Free_State" title="In a Free State">In a Free State</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/John_Berger" title="John Berger">John Berger</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/G._(novel)" title="G. (novel)">G.</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/J._G._Farrell" title="J. G. Farrell">J. G. Farrell</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Siege_of_Krishnapur" title="The Siege of Krishnapur">The Siege of Krishnapur</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer" title="Nadine Gordimer">Nadine Gordimer</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Conservationist" title="The Conservationist">The Conservationist</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Middleton" title="Stanley Middleton">Stanley Middleton</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Holiday_(novel)" title="Holiday (novel)">Holiday</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Heat_and_Dust" title="Heat and Dust">Heat and Dust</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/David_Storey" title="David Storey">David Storey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Saville_(novel)" title="Saville (novel)">Saville</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scott_(novelist)" title="Paul Scott (novelist)">Paul Scott</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Staying_On" title="Staying On">Staying On</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Iris_Murdoch" title="Iris Murdoch">Iris Murdoch</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea,_the_Sea" title="The Sea, the Sea">The Sea, The Sea</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald" title="Penelope Fitzgerald">Penelope Fitzgerald</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Offshore_(novel)" title="Offshore (novel)">Offshore</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/William_Golding" title="William Golding">William Golding</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Ends_of_the_Earth#Rites_of_Passage" title="To the Ends of the Earth">Rites of Passage</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Midnight%27s_Children" title="Midnight's Children">Midnight's Children</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Keneally" title="Thomas Keneally">Thomas Keneally</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Schindler%27s_Ark" title="Schindler's Ark">Schindler's Ark</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/J._M._Coetzee" title="J. M. Coetzee">J. M. Coetzee</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Life_%26_Times_of_Michael_K" title="Life & Times of Michael K">Life & Times of Michael K</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Anita_Brookner" title="Anita Brookner">Anita Brookner</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Hotel_du_Lac" title="Hotel du Lac">Hotel du Lac</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Keri_Hulme" title="Keri Hulme">Keri Hulme</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Bone_People" title="The Bone People">The Bone People</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Devils" title="The Old Devils">The Old Devils</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Lively" title="Penelope Lively">Penelope Lively</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Moon_Tiger" title="Moon Tiger">Moon Tiger</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)" title="Peter Carey (novelist)">Peter Carey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Oscar_and_Lucinda" title="Oscar and Lucinda">Oscar and Lucinda</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro" title="Kazuo Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day" title="The Remains of the Day">The Remains of the Day</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/A._S._Byatt" title="A. S. Byatt">A. S. Byatt</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Possession_(Byatt_novel)" title="Possession (Byatt novel)">Possession</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Ben_Okri" title="Ben Okri">Ben Okri</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Famished_Road" title="The Famished Road">The Famished Road</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient" title="The English Patient">The English Patient</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Unsworth" title="Barry Unsworth">Barry Unsworth</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Hunger" title="Sacred Hunger">Sacred Hunger</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Roddy_Doyle" title="Roddy Doyle">Roddy Doyle</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Clarke_Ha_Ha_Ha" title="Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha">Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/James_Kelman" title="James Kelman">James Kelman</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/How_Late_It_Was,_How_Late" title="How Late It Was, How Late">How Late It Was, How Late</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Pat_Barker" title="Pat Barker">Pat Barker</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_Road" title="The Ghost Road">The Ghost Road</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Graham_Swift" title="Graham Swift">Graham Swift</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Last_Orders" title="Last Orders">Last Orders</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Arundhati_Roy" title="Arundhati Roy">Arundhati Roy</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things" title="The God of Small Things">The God of Small Things</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Ian_McEwan" title="Ian McEwan">Ian McEwan</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Amsterdam_(novel)" title="Amsterdam (novel)">Amsterdam</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/J._M._Coetzee" title="J. M. Coetzee">J. M. Coetzee</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Disgrace" title="Disgrace">Disgrace</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Blind_Assassin" title="The Blind Assassin">The Blind Assassin</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)" title="Peter Carey (novelist)">Peter Carey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/True_History_of_the_Kelly_Gang" title="True History of the Kelly Gang">True History of the Kelly Gang</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Yann_Martel" title="Yann Martel">Yann Martel</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Pi" title="Life of Pi">Life of Pi</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/DBC_Pierre" title="DBC Pierre">DBC Pierre</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Vernon_God_Little" title="Vernon God Little">Vernon God Little</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Alan_Hollinghurst" title="Alan Hollinghurst">Alan Hollinghurst</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Line_of_Beauty" title="The Line of Beauty">The Line of Beauty</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/John_Banville" title="John Banville">John Banville</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea_(novel)" title="The Sea (novel)">The Sea</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2006 Man Booker Prize">2006</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kiran_Desai" title="Kiran Desai">Kiran Desai</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Inheritance_of_Loss" title="The Inheritance of Loss">The Inheritance of Loss</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2007_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2007 Man Booker Prize">2007</a>: <a href="/wiki/Anne_Enright" title="Anne Enright">Anne Enright</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Gathering_(Enright_novel)" title="The Gathering (Enright novel)">The Gathering</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2008_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2008 Man Booker Prize">2008</a>: <a href="/wiki/Aravind_Adiga" title="Aravind Adiga">Aravind Adiga</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Tiger_(Adiga_novel)" title="The White Tiger (Adiga novel)">The White Tiger</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2009_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2009 Man Booker Prize">2009</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" title="Hilary Mantel">Hilary Mantel</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Hall" title="Wolf Hall">Wolf Hall</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2010 Man Booker Prize">2010</a>: <a href="/wiki/Howard_Jacobson" title="Howard Jacobson">Howard Jacobson</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Finkler_Question" title="The Finkler Question">The Finkler Question</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2011_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2011 Man Booker Prize">2011</a>: <a href="/wiki/Julian_Barnes" title="Julian Barnes">Julian Barnes</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sense_of_an_Ending" title="The Sense of an Ending">The Sense of an Ending</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2012_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2012 Man Booker Prize">2012</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" title="Hilary Mantel">Hilary Mantel</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Bring_Up_the_Bodies" title="Bring Up the Bodies">Bring Up the Bodies</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2013_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2013 Man Booker Prize">2013</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Catton" title="Eleanor Catton">Eleanor Catton</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Luminaries" title="The Luminaries">The Luminaries</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2014_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2014 Man Booker Prize">2014</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Flanagan" title="Richard Flanagan">Richard Flanagan</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Narrow_Road_to_the_Deep_North_(novel)" title="The Narrow Road to the Deep North (novel)">The Narrow Road to the Deep North</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2015 Man Booker Prize">2015</a>: <a href="/wiki/Marlon_James_(novelist)" title="Marlon James (novelist)">Marlon James</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Seven_Killings" title="A Brief History of Seven Killings">A Brief History of Seven Killings</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2016_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2016 Man Booker Prize">2016</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Beatty" title="Paul Beatty">Paul Beatty</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sellout_(novel)" title="The Sellout (novel)">The Sellout</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2017_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2017 Man Booker Prize">2017</a>: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">George Saunders</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2018_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2018 Man Booker Prize">2018</a>: <a href="/wiki/Anna_Burns" title="Anna Burns">Anna Burns</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Milkman_(novel)" title="Milkman (novel)">Milkman</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2019_Booker_Prize" title="2019 Booker Prize">2019</a>: <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Testaments" title="The Testaments">The Testaments</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Bernardine_Evaristo" title="Bernardine Evaristo">Bernardine Evaristo</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Girl,_Woman,_Other" title="Girl, Woman, Other">Girl, Woman, Other</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2020_Booker_Prize" title="2020 Booker Prize">2020</a>: <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Stuart_(writer)" title="Douglas Stuart (writer)">Douglas Stuart</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Shuggie_Bain" title="Shuggie Bain">Shuggie Bain</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2021_Booker_Prize" title="2021 Booker Prize">2021</a>: <a href="/wiki/Damon_Galgut" title="Damon Galgut">Damon Galgut</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Promise_(Galgut_novel)" title="The Promise (Galgut novel)">The Promise</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2022_Booker_Prize" title="2022 Booker Prize">2022</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shehan_Karunatilaka" title="Shehan Karunatilaka">Shehan Karunatilaka</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Seven_Moons_of_Maali_Almeida" title="The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida">The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2023_Booker_Prize" title="2023 Booker Prize">2023</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Lynch_(writer)" title="Paul Lynch (writer)">Paul Lynch</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Prophet_Song" title="Prophet Song">Prophet Song</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2024_Booker_Prize" title="2024 Booker Prize">2024</a>: <a href="/wiki/Samantha_Harvey_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Samantha Harvey (author)">Samantha Harvey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Orbital_(novel)" title="Orbital (novel)">Orbital</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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Express</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> (1976)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=There%27s_a_Long,_Long_Trail_A-Winding_(Russell_Kirk_short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding (Russell Kirk short story) (page does not exist)">There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Russell_Kirk" title="Russell Kirk">Russell Kirk</a> (1977)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Chimney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Chimney (page does not exist)">The Chimney</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a> (1978)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Naples_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naples (short story) (page does not exist)">Naples</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Avram_Davidson" title="Avram Davidson">Avram Davidson</a> (1979)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Mackintosh_Willy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mackintosh Willy (page does not exist)">Mackintosh Willy</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a> (1980, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Woman_Who_Loved_the_Moon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Woman Who Loved the Moon (page does not exist)">The Woman Who Loved the Moon</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_A._Lynn" title="Elizabeth A. Lynn">Elizabeth A. Lynn</a> (1980, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ugly_Chickens_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Ugly Chickens (short story) (page does not exist)">The Ugly Chickens</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Waldrop" title="Howard Waldrop">Howard Waldrop</a> (1981)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Dark_Country_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Dark Country (short story) (page does not exist)">The Dark Country</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Etchison" title="Dennis Etchison">Dennis Etchison</a> (1982, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Reach" title="The Reach">Do the Dead Sing?</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> (1982, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Gorgon_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Gorgon (short story) (page does not exist)">The Gorgon</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Tanith_Lee" title="Tanith Lee">Tanith Lee</a> (1983)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Elle_Est_Trois,_(La_Mort)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) (page does not exist)">Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Tanith_Lee" title="Tanith Lee">Tanith Lee</a> (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Bones_Wizard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Bones Wizard (page does not exist)">The Bones Wizard</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Ryan_(horror_writer)" title="Alan Ryan (horror writer)">Alan Ryan</a> (1985, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Still_Life_with_Scorpion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Still Life with Scorpion (page does not exist)">Still Life with Scorpion</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Scott_Baker_(writer)" title="Scott Baker (writer)">Scott Baker</a> (1985, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_Dragons&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paper Dragons (page does not exist)">Paper Dragons</a>" by <a href="/wiki/James_Blaylock" title="James Blaylock">James Blaylock</a> (1986)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Light_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Red Light (short story) (page does not exist)">Red Light</a>" by <a href="/wiki/David_J._Schow" title="David J. Schow">David J. Schow</a> (1987)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Friend%27s_Best_Man&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Friend's Best Man (page does not exist)">Friend's Best Man</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Carroll" title="Jonathan Carroll">Jonathan Carroll</a> (1988)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Winter_Solstice,_Camelot_Station" title="Winter Solstice, Camelot Station">Winter Solstice, Camelot Station</a>" by <a href="/wiki/John_M._Ford" title="John M. Ford">John M. Ford</a> (1989)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Illusionist_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Illusionist (short story) (page does not exist)">The Illusionist</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Steven_Millhauser" title="Steven Millhauser">Steven Millhauser</a> (1990)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sandman:_Dream_Country" title="The Sandman: Dream Country">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Vess" title="Charles Vess">Charles Vess</a> (1991)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Somewhere_Doors&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Somewhere Doors (page does not exist)">The Somewhere Doors</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Fred_Chappell" title="Fred Chappell">Fred Chappell</a> (1992)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Graves_(short_story)" title="Graves (short story)">Graves</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (1993, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=This_Year%27s_Class_Picture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="This Year's Class Picture (page does not exist)">This Year's Class Picture</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Simmons" title="Dan Simmons">Dan Simmons</a> (1993, tie)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lodger_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lodger (short story) (page does not exist)">The Lodger</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Fred_Chappell" title="Fred Chappell">Fred Chappell</a> (1994)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Black_Suit" title="The Man in the Black Suit">The Man in the Black Suit</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> (1995)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Grass_Princess&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Grass Princess (page does not exist)">The Grass Princess</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Gwyneth_Jones_(novelist)" title="Gwyneth Jones (novelist)">Gwyneth Jones</a> (1996)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thirteen_Phantasms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thirteen Phantasms (page does not exist)">Thirteen Phantasms</a>" by <a href="/wiki/James_Blaylock" title="James Blaylock">James Blaylock</a> (1997)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dust_Motes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dust Motes (page does not exist)">Dust Motes</a>" by <a href="/wiki/P._D._Cacek" title="P. D. Cacek">P. D. Cacek</a> (1998)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Specialist%27s_Hat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Specialist's Hat (page does not exist)">The Specialist's Hat</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Link" title="Kelly Link">Kelly Link</a> (1999)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Chop_Girl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Chop Girl (page does not exist)">The Chop Girl</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ian_R._MacLeod" title="Ian R. MacLeod">Ian R. MacLeod</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pottawatomie_Giant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Pottawatomie Giant (page does not exist)">The Pottawatomie Giant</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Duncan_(writer)" title="Andy Duncan (writer)">Andy Duncan</a> (2001)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Queen_for_a_Day_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Queen for a Day (short story) (page does not exist)">Queen for a Day</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Albert_E._Cowdrey" title="Albert E. Cowdrey">Albert E. Cowdrey</a> (2002)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Creation_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Creation (short story) (page does not exist)">Creation</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2003)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Ysidro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Ysidro (page does not exist)">Don Ysidro</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Holland_Rogers" title="Bruce Holland Rogers">Bruce Holland Rogers</a> (2004)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Singing_My_Sister_Down" title="Singing My Sister Down">Singing My Sister Down</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Margo_Lanagan" title="Margo Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a> (2005)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=CommComm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CommComm (page does not exist)">CommComm</a>" by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">George Saunders</a> (2006)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Journey_Into_the_Kingdom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Journey Into the Kingdom (page does not exist)">Journey Into the Kingdom</a>" by <a href="/wiki/M._Rickert" title="M. Rickert">M. Rickert</a> (2007)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Singing_of_Mount_Abora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Singing of Mount Abora (page does not exist)">Singing of Mount Abora</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Goss" title="Theodora Goss">Theodora Goss</a> (2008)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/26_Monkeys,_Also_the_Abyss" title="26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss">26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Kij_Johnson" title="Kij Johnson">Kij Johnson</a> (2009)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pelican_Bar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Pelican Bar (page does not exist)">The Pelican Bar</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler" title="Karen Joy Fowler">Karen Joy Fowler</a> (2010)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Fossil-Figures&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fossil-Figures (page does not exist)">Fossil-Figures</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates" title="Joyce Carol Oates">Joyce Carol Oates</a> (2011)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Paper_Menagerie" title="The Paper Menagerie">The Paper Menagerie</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Liu" title="Ken Liu">Ken Liu</a> (2012)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Telling_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Telling (short story) (page does not exist)">The Telling</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Norman_Bossert" title="Gregory Norman Bossert">Gregory Norman Bossert</a> (2013)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Prayer_of_Ninety_Cats&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Prayer of Ninety Cats (page does not exist)">The Prayer of Ninety Cats</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan" title="Caitlín R. Kiernan">Caitlín R. Kiernan</a> (2014)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Do_You_Like_to_Look_at_Monsters%3F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Do You Like to Look at Monsters? (page does not exist)">Do You Like to Look at Monsters?</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Scott_Nicolay" title="Scott Nicolay">Scott Nicolay</a> (2015)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hungry_Daughters_of_Starving_Mothers" title="Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers">Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Alyssa_Wong" title="Alyssa Wong">Alyssa Wong</a> (2016)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Das_Steingesch%C3%B6pf" title="Das Steingeschöpf">Das Steingeschöpf</a>" by <a href="/w/index.php?title=G._V._Anderson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="G. V. Anderson (page does not exist)">G. V. Anderson</a> (2017)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Birding:_A_Fairy_Tale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Birding: A Fairy Tale (page does not exist)">The Birding: A Fairy Tale</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Natalia_Theodoridou" title="Natalia Theodoridou">Natalia Theodoridou</a> (2018)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Like_a_River_Loves_the_Sky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Like a River Loves the Sky (page does not exist)">Like a River Loves the Sky</a>" by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Emma_T%C3%B6rzs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emma Törzs (page does not exist)">Emma Törzs</a> / "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Ten_Deals_with_the_Indigo_Snake&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake (page does not exist)">Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake</a>" by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mel_Kassel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mel Kassel (page does not exist)">Mel Kassel</a> (2019)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Read_After_Burning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Read After Burning (page does not exist)">Read After Burning</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Maria_Dahvana_Headley" title="Maria Dahvana Headley">Maria Dahvana Headley</a> (2020)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Glass_Bottle_Dancer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glass Bottle Dancer (page does not exist)">Glass Bottle Dancer</a>" by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Rita_Baker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Celeste Rita Baker (page does not exist)">Celeste Rita Baker</a> (2021)</li> <li>"(emet)" by Lauren Ring (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px 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