Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it.įebruary 1862. In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent and moving work yet. His favorite charity is a project to educate Tibetan refugee children in Nepal. He conducted a Guest Workshop at the Eastman School of Music, Fall 1995, and was an Adjunct Professor at Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1990-1995 and Adjunct Professor at Siena College, Loudonville, New York in Fall 1989. Petersburg, Russia, Summer 2000), Brown University, Dickinson College, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.

He has also been a Visiting Writer at Vermont Studio Center, University of Georgia MayMester Program, University of Denver, University of Texas at Austin, St.

He has been an Assistant Professor, Syracuse University Creative Writing Program since 1997. Saunders received an MA with an emphasis in creative writing in 1988. 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.Īfter reading in People magazine about the Master's program at Syracuse University, he applied. He worked at Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, NY as a technical writer and geophysical engineer from 1989 to 1996. in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Saunders received an MA with an emphasis in creative writing George Saunders was born Decemand raised on the south side of Chicago. After reading in People magazine about the Master's program at Syracuse University, he applied. 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. George Saunders was born Decemand raised on the south side of Chicago.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders