George Saunders |
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George Saunders has published two collections of stories, Pastoralia and CivilWarLand
in Bad Decline (Riverhead
Books), 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.
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