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Professor

George William Saunders

Syracuse University
Writer (short story writer); Language scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2014
Short story writer. Work known for its humor and political edge. Author of Pastoralia (2000), CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996), In Persuasion Nation (2006) and Tenth of December (2013). Work appears regularly in The New Yorker, GQ, Harpers Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. Honors include a MacArthur Fellowship (2006), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form (2013).
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