Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer studied at Brown University, University of Montana and Georgetown Day School. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are San Francisco. Works named in the authority record are Less. Distinctions recorded are Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature.

• Name — Andrew Sean Greer • Born — 21 November 1970 • Birthplace — Washington D.C., U.S. • Education — Brown University (BA) University of Montana (MFA) • Occupation — Novelist • Years Active — 2001–present • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2018) • Genre — Fiction • Website — andrewgreer.com/

Andrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, in Washington, D.C., the child of two scientists. He grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He is an identical twin. He graduated from Georgetown Day School, and Brown University, where he studied with Robert Coover and Edmund White, and served as commencement speaker. He lives part-time in Italy. He is the author of six works of fiction. Greer taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori for a work translated into Italian, a Today Show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, an NEA Fellow, and a judge for the National Book Award.

Greer's stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and other national publications. They have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009. His third book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, was released in 2004; a New Yorker piece by John Updike called it "enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov." Mitch Albom chose The Confessions of Max Tivoli for the Today Show Book Club, and it soon became a bestseller. 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 Fitzgerald short story and the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Greer's fourth book, The Story of a Marriage, was published in 2008. 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." The Washington Post called it "thoughtful, complex and exquisitely written." The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells was published in June 2013. His novel Less was published in 2017 and received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A follow-up, Less is Lost, was published in 2022 and debuted on The New York Times Best Sellers list. In Greer's novel Villa Coco, released in June 2026, Greer introduced a new protagonist: an American archivist fresh out of college, who takes on a job in Tuscany, cataloguing the house of a Baroness.

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• Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected — |Notes • "It's a summer day" — 2017

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