Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer was born on November 21, 1970, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He graduated from Brown University, where he studied under Robert Coover and Edmund White. He has taught at institutions including Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and lives part-time in Italy. Greer's notable works include The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004), which became a bestseller after selection for the Today Show Book Club; The Story of a Marriage (2008); and Less (2017), a comic novel about a middle-aged American writer travelling the world who wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its sequel, Less Is Lost (2022), was a New York Times bestseller. He has received awards including the California Book Award, NEA Fellowship, and PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award.