# An Evening with George Saunders

2023 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner George Saunders gives the annual lecture associated with the Prize, followed by a conversation with the Library’s literary director Clay Smith. George Saunders is a New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” “Lincoln in the Bardo” (which won the Booker Prize), “Congratulations, by the Way,” “Tenth of December (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award), “The Braindead Megaphone” and the critically acclaimed collections “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” “Pastoralia” and “In Persuasion Nation.” He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 h 3 min
- By: Saunders, George
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-9930/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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