Greer taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is the author of six works of fiction. He graduated from Georgetown Day School, and Brown University, where he studied with Robert Coover and Edmund White, and served as commencement speaker. Biography Īndrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, in Washington, D.C., the child of two scientists. 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 Award. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. While it may not deliver quite the emotional range of its predecessor, there is no better literary company than Freddy Pelu, the omniscient narrator who recounts Arthur’s adventures from a position of knowledge and imagination.Greer at the Pulitzer Prizes ceremony, 2018Īndrew Sean Greer (born November 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. If Less is a masterpiece, Less is Lost is undeniably an enjoyable encore. It is not necessary to have read Less to enjoy Less is Lost but the experience will be richly enhanced if you do read the books in sequence. This time, Arthur’s life is upended when a former great love dies and an unexpected financial crisis forces him to accept another series of literary jobs that force him to zigzag across United States – as fans of Less will come to expect, chaos ensues. Inevitably, the sequel suffers somewhat by comparison – our first introduction to Less had all the power and delight of surprise and this second adventure feels more like an extension rather than a deepening of the narrative.
The middle-aged, moderately successful gay author’s travails offered a delicious skewering of the writerly life and publishing industry but was also full of profundity and heart. It is a risky enterprise attempting to recapture the magic of the original which garnered not only stellar critical acclaim but established Less as one of the great fictional characters of his time. Our hapless protagonist is once again fumbling through life in a montage of bittersweet, comic escapades. The sequel to Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer Prize winning Less reunites us with the beloved Arthur Less.
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