“I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.”

American novelist and short story writer

Andrew Sean Greer is an American novelist and short story writer known for his fiction and for winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less. He is also the author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times described as 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. His work has drawn attention for its literary style and for the range of novels and stories he has written.