![]() ![]() At this point he began writing books, eventually publishing his first short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Within three years of their marriage, the couple had two daughters, and Saunders took a job as a technical writer. Three weeks later, they were engaged to be married. While studying at Syracuse, he met Paula Redick, one of his peers in the writing program. ![]() During this time, he worked a number of hourly jobs before attending Syracuse University, where he earned his Master’s in Creative Writing. A year and a half later, he got sick after swimming in a feces-contaminated river, so he returned to the United States. Perhaps because the closest town was only accessible by helicopter, Saunders started reading voraciously while working in the oil-fields. Upon graduation, he worked as a field geophysicist in the oil-fields of Sumatra, an island in Southeast Asia. ![]() When he was eighteen, he attended the Colorado School of Mines, where he graduated with a geophysical engineering degree in 1981. George Saunders was born in 1958 in Amarillo, Texas, but he grew up in Chicago. ![]()
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