He was recently named a 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow for Fiction. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the spring semesters of 20. He is a recipient of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction, and fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. Less is described by Greer as “the comedy of a man fleeing the humiliations of love, middle-age, and failure by accepting invitations that lead to a trip around the world and back, at last, to face his final demon: himself.” The 2018 Pulitzer Prize citation hails it as 'A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love.'Īndrew Sean Greer is the author of five previous novels. Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) A Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book QUESTION: How do you. The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its publication.Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides life and observations of his Greek heritage. Former Workshop visiting faculty member Andrew Sean Greer has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for his novel, Less, published in July of 2017 by the Lee Boudreaux Books imprint of Little, Brown and Company. The next novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, his first in a decade, is a family saga set in New York City before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Apr. Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002.

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