In a more general sense, the true antagonist of Lincoln in the Bardo is the Bardo-dwellers’ inability to accept that they’ve died. This tendril wraps around children who remain too long in the Bardo, securing them in place for eternity. Antagonist: A tendril made out of hellish souls.Climax: The Reverend Everly Thomas sacrifices himself by moving on from the Bardo, thereby summoning a shock of “matterlightblooming” energy that blasts through a hellish tendril wrapping around Willie Lincoln.Setting: As the title suggests, the majority of Lincoln in the Bardo takes place in the Bardo-a liminal space between death and rebirth-but this particular Bardo is set in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Experimental Fiction.
He currently teaches at Syracuse University’s Creative Writing Program. He has also won Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, as well as the PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2017, his long-awaited debut novel was published and won him the Man Booker Prize. Known primarily as a master of short fiction, Saunders also writes travel and profile pieces for well-known outlets like The New Yorker and GQ. 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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