George Saunders has published three collections of stories, In Persuasion Nation, Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (Riverhead Books), a novella, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, a book of essays, The Braindead Megaphone, and a children's story, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (Random House). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Story, and many other publications.
He won the National Magazine Award in 1994 for his story "The 400-pound CEO" and again in 1996 for the story "Bounty." In April, he was named a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow and, in October, a MacArthur fellow.
He has explored for oil in Sumatra, played guitar in a Texas bar band, and worked in a slaughterhouse.
