Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer (born November 5, 1970 in Washington, DC ) is an American writer .
Life
Greer was born in Washington, DC in 1970 and grew up in a suburb of Washington; he has an identical twin brother. Greer studied creative writing at Brown University . After several years in New York , where he earned his living doing odd jobs, he studied at the University of Montana and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts . Greer lives in San Francisco with his husband .
In 2012/13 Greer was the Samuel Fischer visiting professor for literature at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin .
For Less , Greer received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2018 . Less , as well as Greer's novels The Path of Minor Planets , The Confessions of Max Tivoli and The Story of a Marriage , was translated into German.
Works
Short stories
- How it was for me , 2000
Novels
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The Path of Minor Planets . 2001
- Übers. Uda Strätling: The night of light. S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15343-5
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli . 2004
- Übers. Uda Strätling: The amazing story of Max Tivoli . S. Fischer, 2005 ISBN 3-10-027815-1
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The story of a marriage . 2008
- Übers. Uda Strätling: History of a marriage . S. Fischer, 2009 ISBN 3-10-027818-6
- The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells . 2013
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Less . 2017
- Translator Tobias Schnettler: Mister Less . S. Fischer, 2018 ISBN 978-3-10-397328-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Andrew Sean Greer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Andrew Sean Greer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Andrew Sean Greer at perlentaucher.de
- Andrew Sean Greer , website
- Andrew Sean Greer , at Fischer Verlag
- Andrew Sean Greer , at Macmillan Books
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait on fischerverlage.de , accessed on April 17, 2018.
- ↑ Greer, Andrew Sean. October 8, 2012, accessed April 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Pulitzer Prize: The Winner and His Loser. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greer, Andrew Sean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |