Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage,The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Path of Minor Planets, and How It Was for Me. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review,The New Yorker, and other national publications, and have been anthologized most recently in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library.