“To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.”

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.