George Saunders

George Saunders writes regularly for The New Yorker and Harper's, as well as Esquire, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine.

In 2000, The New Yorker named him one of the "Best Writers Under 40." He won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2004 and Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, were named New York Times Notable Books. His work is included in Best American Short Stories 2005 and he is the author of The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, a New York Times children's bestseller.

He teaches at Syracuse University. George Saunders is part Time's 100 Most Influential people in the World.