George Saunders

Writing

George Saunders

Born December 2, 1958 · Amarillo, Texas, USA (age 67)

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) 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 weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008. A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award fo…

Known For

SpiderheadSpiderhead · 2022
Spiderhead
5.82022
MovieScience FictionThriller
A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.
The Semplica Girl DiariesThe Semplica Girl Diaries
The Semplica Girl Diaries
MovieComedyDrama
Family man Lloyd Turner is facing up to his 40th birthday with the prospect of a new decade mouldering in debt and mediocrity. After attending yet another party hosted by the rich parents of his daughter’s friend, and in a bid to give his daughters the happiness he thinks they deserve, Lloyd and his wife Sarah makes the financially crippling decision to invest in what has become the elite’s new favourite status symbol: a set of ‘Semplica Girls’ to decorate their front lawn. Yet when Lloyd’s youngest daughter, Ida, discovers what’s happening in her name, on her very own doorstep, she threatens to plunge her family into a chaos deeper than they’ve ever known…
AdamsAdams · 2019
Adams
3.52019
MovieComedyDrama
One of the first film adaptations of Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders' work, this examination of white male rage against " the other' tells the story of Roger (Patton Oswalt) and Adams (Fred Armisen), two neighbors locked in an escalating conflict.
ExhortationExhortation · 2017
Exhortation
2017
MovieDrama
The divisional director of a large firm attempts to motivate his staff.
Lincoln in the BardoLincoln in the Bardo · 2026
Lincoln in the Bardo
2026
MovieDramaHistory
A short adaptation of a scene from the novel
Offloading for Mrs. SchwartzOffloading for Mrs. Schwartz · 2011
Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz
2011
MovieScience Fiction
A story narrated by a man who works in personal interactive holography, enabling people to experience fantasies, or the memories of others, through dream-like holograms.
Sea OakSea Oak · 2017
Sea Oak
6.42017
SeriesDramaComedy
Genre-bending comedy featuring Aunt Bernie, a meek, working-class woman who dies tragically in a home invasion. Compelled by sheer force of dissatisfaction, she comes back from the dead full of rage, determined to get the life she never had. She proceeds to inflict a range of demands on her immediate family who live in a low-end subsidized hellhole of a housing complex called Sea Oak.

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