George Saunders Biography
George Saunders was born in 1958 and raised on the south side of Chicago. In
1981 he received a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines
in Golden, Colorado. He worked at Radian International, an environmental
engineering firm in Rochester, NY as a technical writer and geophysical engineer
from 1989 to 1996. He has also worked in Sumatra on an oil exploration
geophysics crew, as a doorman in Beverly Hills, a roofer in Chicago, a
convenience store clerk, a guitarist in a Texas country-and-western band, and a
knuckle-puller in a West Texas slaughterhouse.
In 1988 he received a masters in creative writing from Syracuse
University, and has been on the faculty since 1997 (he has also been a visiting
writer at various universities, and an adjunct professor at others).
When asked he cites many authors as having influenced him including Ernest
Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, and Kalil Gibran and others,
plus the comedian Steve Martin, Monty Python, and Dr. Seuss.
Saunders's essays and short fiction can often be found in such publications as The New Yorker, GQ and Slate. He is married
with two children.
Bibliography
Civilwarland in Bad Decline (short stories,1996)
Pastoralia (short stories, 2000)
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (children's novel, 2000)
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (novella, 2005)
In Persuasion Nation (short stories, 2006)
The Braindead Megaphone (essays, 2007)
From the author's website
This biography was last updated on 01/16/2010.
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