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Andrew Holleran
American novelist, essayist, and short story writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944),[1] an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, born on the island of Aruba. Most of his adult life has been spent in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a small town in Florida. He was a member of The Violet Quill with Christopher Cox,[2] a gay writer's group that met in 1980 and 1981 and also included Robert Ferro, Edmund White and Felice Picano.[3][4] Following the critical and financial success of his first novel Dancer from the Dance in 1978, he became a prominent author of post-Stonewall gay literature. Historically protective of his privacy, the author continues to use the pseudonym Andrew Holleran as a writer and public speaker.
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Born | Eric Garber 1944 (age 79ā80) Aruba |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
Education | University of Pennsylvania |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
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