George Saunders - Carole Barnette Boudreaux '65 Great Writers Series April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 1800 - 2000
The Carole Barnette Boudreaux '65 Great Writers Series welcomes Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders to campus for a public talk.
The recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius" Award), George Saunders has authored two novels, four collections of short stories, a novella, a book of essays, and an award-winning children's book. His most recent collection, Liberation Day, is a masterful work that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. He is the author of two novels, his forthcoming book Vigil and the Man Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo. Saunders's collection, Tenth of December, was the winner of the 2014 Story Prize and the 2014 Folio Prize. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, GQ, and Harpers Magazine, and has appeared in the O'Henry, Best American Short Story, Best Non-Required Reading, and Best American Travel Writing anthologies. Saunders is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2013, and received the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL) from the National Book Foundation. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Saunders' books will be available for sale after the talk and he will be doing a book signing.
Category: Attractions | Talks and Lectures
The recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius" Award), George Saunders has authored two novels, four collections of short stories, a novella, a book of essays, and an award-winning children's book. His most recent collection, Liberation Day, is a masterful work that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. He is the author of two novels, his forthcoming book Vigil and the Man Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo. Saunders's collection, Tenth of December, was the winner of the 2014 Story Prize and the 2014 Folio Prize. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, GQ, and Harpers Magazine, and has appeared in the O'Henry, Best American Short Story, Best Non-Required Reading, and Best American Travel Writing anthologies. Saunders is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2013, and received the 2025 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL) from the National Book Foundation. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Saunders' books will be available for sale after the talk and he will be doing a book signing.
Category: Attractions | Talks and Lectures
Starting Price Per Person
Free
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LavinBernick Center Rm 213 Tulane University
29 McAlister Drive
New Orleans Louisiana 70118
United States
( Community Center )
29 McAlister Drive
New Orleans Louisiana 70118
United States
( Community Center )
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