# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-saunders
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:26.669Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/george-saunders"
name: "George Saunders"
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description: "George Saunders is an American writer. He is best known for his short stories and his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders's short stories have been published as several collections, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) and Tenth of December: Stories (2013)."
tagline: "American writer (born 1958)"
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birthDate: "1958-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump