Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970 in Washington, DC) is an American novelist and short story writer.^[1]

He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune while garnering several other coast-to-coast honors.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Biography 2 Work 3 Awards and Prizes 4 Bibliography 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Andrew Sean Greer is the child of two scientists. He studied writing with Robert Coover and Edmund White at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation.^{[citation needed]} After years in New York working as a chauffeur, theater tech, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, Montana, where he received his Master of Fine Arts from The University of Montana, from where he soon moved to Seattle and two years later to San Francisco where he now lives.^{[citation needed]} He is currently a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center. He is an identical twin.

[edit] Work

While in San Francisco, he began to publish in magazines before releasing a collection of his stories, How It Was for Me. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and other national publications, and have been anthologized most recently in The Book of Other People, and The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009.^{[citation needed]}

His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, was published in 2001.

His second book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, came out in 2004. Writing in The New Yorker, John Updike called the book “enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov.”^{[citation needed]} Mitch Albom then chose The Confessions of Max Tivoli for the Today Show Book Club and it soon became a bestseller.^{[citation needed]} The story of a man aging backwards, it was inspired by the Bob Dylan song "My Back Pages." Though similar in theme, it is related neither to the Fitzgerald short story nor the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

The New York Times has written that in his third novel, The Story of a Marriage, Greer ascends “to the heights of masters like Marilynne Robinson and William Trevor.”^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Awards and Prizes

• Northern California Book Award
• California Book Award
• New York Public Library Young Lions Award
• Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library.
• O. Henry Award for the short story, "Darkness".^[2]

[edit] Bibliography

• How It Was for Me (short stories) (2000) ISBN 978-0-312-24126-1
• The Path of Minor Planets (2001) ISBN 978-0-312-30605-2
• The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004) ISBN 978-0-312-42381-0
• The Story of a Marriage (2008)^[3] ISBN 978-0-312-42828-0

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Andrew Sean Greer at FSG
• Andrew Sean Greer website
• George, Lynell, "Post-WWII San Francisco sets the tone for Andrew Sean Greer", Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2008
• Weich, Dave, "The Confessions of Andrew Sean Greer", Powells.com, January 12, 2005
• Gussow, Mel, "A Character in Reverse, an Author in the Clouds", The New York Times, March 30, 2004

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