He said that seeing death all around him at that sensitive point in his life had been worrisome.Īfter high school, Greer went to the nearby Rhode Island to study Writing at Brown University. He was always going for tests and worrying about everything he had done while waiting to get the test results. Greer said the AIDS epidemic had put him in a perpetual state of anxiety about his sexuality while growing up. Greer says with regrets that he has tried but has not been able to track the teacher yet. Polly so much that after scoring him an A with triple plus, she wrote on the last page of his essay that he should reach out to her when he became a famous writer. Greer’s piece had impressed his teacher Mrs. Greer said all he had ever wanted was to be a writer and tells an anecdote about his time as a ten-year-old boy in Georgetown Day School when his class had been asked to write a 10-page novel. He grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C, with his close-knit family that includes his twin brother, Micheal, and his parents, who are both chemists. Greer did some interesting side jobs before becoming a professional writer, including being a chauffeur and a television extra.Īndrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970 in Washington, D.C.Andrew Sean Greer taught at the Frier Universitat Berlin, Germany, and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and is a Fellow of the New York Public Library Cullman Center, as well as many other fellowships.Greer is a judge for the National Book Award.

He has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Montana. Greer continued his studies after his bachelor’s.Andrew Sean Greer is homosexual, but his identical twin brother is heterosexual.Andrew Sean Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel titled Less.

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