George saunders new yorker biography for kids
•
About George Saunders
I was born in Amarillo, Texas, grew up in Chicago, and (barely) graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a degree in exploration geophysics. There was an oil-boom on, which meant that even someone like me could get work in the oil-fields. So after college I went to work in Sumatra, as a field geophysicist. We worked four weeks on and two weeks off, in a jungle camp that was a forty-minute helicopter ride to the nearest town – so this is when my reading life really started. The game became filling up an entire suitcase with books sufficient to get me through the next two weeks of camp life. About a year and a half at this job, I got sick after going swimming in a river that was polluted with monkey shit (I remember looking up at about of them, sitting on our oil pipeline crapping away, and thinking: “I wonder if swimming here is okay?”) and came home to try and be Kerouac II. I worked as a doorman, a roofer, a convenience store clerk, and a slaugh
•
I’ve also undergone a gradual stylistic evolution that may have had something to do with my writing travel-based nonfiction. I think I got a little more comfortable with the idea of not having to put total fireworks into every sentence, which meant that I could broaden out a bit and write stories that didn’t have any overt pyrotechnics—i.e., stories (like “Victory Lap” or “Puppy” or “Al Roosten”) that were a step closer to realism in their settings and actions.
It’s true that many of the stories in the book end with some kind of redemptive act, or at least the hope for one. But those moments of redemption seem to happen almost on a knife’s edge: they’re laced with violence or the potential for it—for instance, the ending of “Escape from Spiderhead,” in which the only possible act of decency requires a gruesome suicide, or the last few lines of “Home,” in which a desperate man on the point of violence more or less begs to be restrained from it. I guess even these stories are someho • American writer (born ) For other people named George Saunders, see George Saunders (disambiguation). George Saunders (born månad 2, ) 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 Guardian's weekend magazine between and [3] A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in , , , and , and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. In , Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".[4] His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for The Story Prize in In , he won the PEN/Malamud Award[5] and was a finalist for the National Book A
George Saunders