Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970 in Washington, DC) is an American novelist and short story writer. [ [http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0312423810 Powell's books biography] ]

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.

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. After years in New York working as a chauffeur, theater tech, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, MT, where he received his MFA from the University of Montana, from where he soon moved to Seattle and two years later to San Francisco where he now lives.

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," "Best American Nonrequired Reading" and "The O. Henry Prize Stories."

His first novel, "The Path of Minor Planets", was published to considerable acclaim in 2001.

His second book, "The Confessions of Max Tivoli", came out in 2004. John Updike first put this novel on the literary map when, in the pages of "The New Yorker", he called it “enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov.” Mitch Albom then chose "Max" for the Today Show Book Club and it soon became a bestseller.

"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.”

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.

Bibliography

*"How It Was for Me" (short stories) (2000)
*"The Path of Minor Planets" (2001)
*"The Confessions of Max Tivoli" (2004)
*"The Story of a Marriage" (2008) [http://us.macmillan.com/thestoryofamarriage]

External links

* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/andrewseangreer Andrew Sean Greer at FSG]
* [http://www.andrewgreer.com/ Andrew Sean Greer website]
* Interview at LA Times May 2008 [http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-greer11-2008may11,0,1195756.story LA Times]
* Interview at Powell's: [http://www.powells.com/authors/greer.html The Confessions of Andrew Sean Greer]
* Interview NYT: [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/books/30GREE.html?ex=1395982800&en=971547b2a25b31d5&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND New York Times]