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George Saunders

JUNOT DIAZ, RICK MOODY, EDWIDGE DANTICAT, DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, SAUNDERS, AND JEFFREY EUGENIDES, 2000. PHOTO: COURTESY OF GEORGE SAUNDERS.

GROOMING: BENJAMIN THIGPEN FOR IS CLINICAL/JED ROOT.

GEORGE SAUNDERS IN NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2016.

SAUNDERS, 2001. PHOTO: MIKE PERSSON, COURTESY OF CAMERA PRESS/REDUX PICTURES. 

SAUNDERS IN HIS COLLEGE DAYS, WITH HIS FAMILY AT HIS PARENTS' HOUSE IN AMARILLO, TEXAS, 1980. PHOTO: COURTESY OF GEORGE SAUNDERS.

SAUNDERS AND HIS WIFE, PAUL, IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AFTER GETTING ENGAGED IN 1986. PHOTO: COURTESY OF GEORGE SAUNDERS.