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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. According to his bio he has been an environment engineer, a
technical writer and geophysical engineer, he has also worked in Sumatra, 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).
To date he has published three volumes of short stories, Civilwarland in Bad
Decline, Pastoralia and In Persuasion Nation; one novella, The
Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, and The Very Persistent Gappers of
Frip for children. Having now published "a kind of trilogy of
short stories" he plans to give himself some time to work out where to go next
with his writing, but does not have plans to write a full-length novel anytime
soon.
When asked who has influenced him he cites a long list that includes Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, and Kalil Gibran and
others, plus the comedian Steve Martin, Monty Python, and Dr. Seuss. He is
married with two children.
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March 2007 paperback edition.
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