American · b. 1970
Andrew Sean Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "Less," a comic novel about a middling writer fleeing his ex-boyfriend's wedding by accepting every minor literary invitation worldwide. The American author transformed midlife crisis into farce, sending his protagonist from Morocco to India while missing every obvious truth about love and ambition. Greer's earlier novels explored San Francisco's gay communities with more somber registers; "Less" proved comedy his true gift.