Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer won me over with the simple fact that his Pulitzer-winning novel, Less, is funny. We tend to assume the Pulitzer rewards heavy tragedy, so claiming fiction's highest honor with comedy strikes me as a wonderful act of defiance. It takes a rare kind of courage for a Brown-educated writer to turn his own fragility and absurdity into art rather than hiding behind gravitas. That marriage of Scorpio introspection and genuine humor is exactly my favorite mode of storytelling. He is a Washington, D.C. native whose work I have been meaning to sit with properly, and his sensibility is precisely the sort I trust.

Name (English)

Andrew Sean Greer

Name (Japanese)

アンドリュー・ショーン・グリーア

Reading

あんどりゅー・しょーん・ぐりーあ

Born

November 5, 1970 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / short story writer

University

Brown University

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2014 Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://andrewgreer.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/agreer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2

Tags

• writer
• novelist
• short story writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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