Andrew Holleran
Andrew Holleran | |
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Holleran, 2007 | |
| Born | Eric Garber 1944 (age 80–81) Aruba |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), 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. 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. He was a member of The Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met in 1980 and 1981 and included Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Felice Picano, Edmund White, and George Whitmore. Historically protective of his privacy, the author continues to use the pseudonym Andrew Holleran as a writer and public speaker.