About the Author

George Saunders, who was chosen in 1999 by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers age forty and under, is the award-winning author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn". . . . There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." --Ernest Hemingway

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn". . . . There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." --Ernest Hemingway