Andrew Sean Greer | |
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 Greer at the Pulitzer Prizes ceremony, 2018 | |
| Born | (1970-11-21)November 21, 1970 (age 55) Washington D.C., U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Brown University (BA) University of Montana (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2018) |
| Website | |
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Andrew Sean Greer (born November 21, 1970) is an Americannovelist andshort story writer.[1] Greer received the 2018Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novelLess. He is the author ofThe Story of a Marriage, whichThe New York Times has called an "inspired, lyrical novel", andThe Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by theSan Francisco Chronicle[2] and received a California Book Award.[3]
Andrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, inWashington, D.C., the child of two scientists.[4] He grew up inRockville, Maryland. He is an identical twin. He graduated fromGeorgetown Day School, andBrown University, where he studied withRobert Coover andEdmund White, and served as commencement speaker.[5] He lives part-time in Italy.[6]
He is the author of six works of fiction.[7] Greer taught atFreie Universität Berlin[8] and theIowa Writers' Workshop.[9] He was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori for a work translated into Italian,[10] aToday Show pick,[11] a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow,[12] an NEA Fellow,[13] and a judge for theNational Book Award.[14]
Greer's stories have appeared inEsquire,The Paris Review,The New Yorker, and other national publications. They have been anthologized inThe Book of Other People andThe PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009.
His third book,The Confessions of Max Tivoli, was released in 2004; aNew Yorker piece byJohn Updike called it "enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov."[15]Mitch Albom choseThe Confessions of Max Tivoli for theToday Show Book Club, and it soon became a bestseller.[16] The story of a man aging backwards, it was inspired by the Bob Dylan song "My Back Pages." It is similar in theme to the Fitzgeraldshort story and the filmThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button.[citation needed]
Greer's fourth book,The Story of a Marriage, was published in 2008.[17]The New York Times said of it: "Mr. Greer seamlessly choreographs an intricate narrative that speaks authentically to the longings and desires of his characters. All the while he never strays from the convincing and steady voice of Pearlie."[18]The Washington Post called it "thoughtful, complex and exquisitely written."[19]
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells was published in June 2013.[20]
His novelLess was published in 2017[21] and received the 2018Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A follow-up,Less is Lost, was published in 2022 and debuted onThe New York Times Best Sellers list.[22][23]
| Title[27] | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| "It's a summer day" | 2017 | Greer, Andrew Sean (June 19, 2017)."It's a summer day".The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 17. pp. 54–60. |
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