"A famous American writer, born in 1958 in Texas, has a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering from Colorado Mining College and a master's degree in creative writing from Syracuse University. He started his writing career relatively late and initially wanted to become a geographer. After making some achievements in scientific and technological writing, he began to write short stories, and also wrote essays and children's stories. His works are commonly seen in the New Yorker, Harper's, GQ and other magazines. From 2006 to 2008, he wrote a column for the British Guardian, American Psyche. He won the National Magazine Award for fiction, the O'Henry Award, the MacArthur Award, and the World Fantasy Award (2006). Lincoln in the Bardo, the first novel, won the Man Booker Prize in 2017 and was the second American writer to win the prize. "
