George Saunders is the author of 13 books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Booker Prize; five collections of stories including Tenth of December, a Finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Prize, and Liberation Day. He is the host of the popular Substack blog, Story Club, an outgrowth of his book on the Russian short story A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.  In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine. Since 1996, he has taught creative writing at Syracuse University. His new novel, Vigil, is forthcoming.

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