Who authored the book titled 'Lincoln in the Bardo', which won the Man Booker Prize 2017?

The novel Lincoln in the Bardo was written by American author George Saunders. It is his first full-length novel and won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2017. The book is set during the course of a single night on February 22, 1862, and focuses on the grief of Abraham Lincoln following the death of his eleven-year-old son, Willie.