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My Take
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.
Overview
Andrew Sean Greer (born November 21, 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. He is the 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 Awar…
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1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- writer / novelist / short story writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Brown University
Awards & achievements
- 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2014 Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Less | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.