Andrew Sean Greer is the author of How It Was for Me, a collection of short stories and three novels, including The Path of Minor Planets and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, came out in 2004. John Updike first put this novel on the literary map when, in the pages of The New Yorker, he called it "enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov." He is the recipient of the California Book Award, the Northern 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.