Born: 1970, Washington, D.C.Lives: Part of the year in Italy
Andrew Sean Greer was born in Washington, D.C., and went to Georgetown Day School. He studied at Brown University and took an MFA at the University of Montana.
His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, came out in 2001. He has taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review and The New Yorker, and he lives part of the year in Italy.