George Saunders

George Saunders

1958-12-02 Amarillo, Texas, USA 5 Credits

Biography

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008. A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first ...

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Spiderhead

Spiderhead

2022

Short Story

5.8
Writing

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius...

Adams

Adams

2019

Writer

3.5
Writing

One of the first film adaptations of Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders' work, this examination of white male rage against " the other' tells...

Exhortation

Exhortation

2017

Story

Writing

The divisional director of a large firm attempts to motivate his staff.

Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz

Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz

2011

Writer, Short Story

Writing

A story narrated by a man who works in personal interactive holography, enabling people to experience fantasies, or the memories of others, through dr...

The Semplica Girl Diaries

The Semplica Girl Diaries

N/A

Story, Writer

Writing

Family man Lloyd Turner (Ayoade) is facing up to his 40th birthday with the prospect of a new decade mouldering in debt and mediocrity. After attendin...