George Saunders will read from his work on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. This award-winning short story writer, novelist, essayist and satirist writes for Esquire, GQ, Harpers, and The New Yorker, which named him one of the best writers under 40 in 2000. In 2006, Saunders was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and he currently has two scripts in development with Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films.
He has authored several short story collections, including New York Times Notable Books Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as other stories which have appeared in the O. Henry and Best American Short Story anthologies. A nonfiction piece on Dubai was selected for Best American Travel Writing 2005, and a collection of his nonfiction writing will be published by Riverhead Books this year. In a testament to the wide breadth of Saunders' writing abilities, his New York Times bestseller The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip won major children's literature prizes in Italy and the Netherlands. Saunders is currently teaching creative writing at Syracuse University.
He has authored several short story collections, including New York Times Notable Books Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as other stories which have appeared in the O. Henry and Best American Short Story anthologies. A nonfiction piece on Dubai was selected for Best American Travel Writing 2005, and a collection of his nonfiction writing will be published by Riverhead Books this year. In a testament to the wide breadth of Saunders' writing abilities, his New York Times bestseller The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip won major children's literature prizes in Italy and the Netherlands. Saunders is currently teaching creative writing at Syracuse University.
