Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer (born November 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. 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 one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award. 2Biography Andrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, in Washington, D.C., the child of two scientists. He is the author of six works of fiction. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including Freie Universitat in Berlin and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori for a work translated into Italian, as well as a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, and NEA Fellow, and a judge for the National Book Award. He is an identical twin. 2Work 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. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, was published in 200