During his senior year, he met Peter Taylor, who taught creative writing. After high school, he attended Harvard College, where he studied literature and American history. After his father retired, the family moved to a small town in northern Florida in 1961. Holleran was born and spent much of his childhood on the island of Aruba in the Dutch Caribbean, where his father worked for an oil company. Historically protective of his privacy, the author continues to use the pseudonym Andrew Holleran as a writer and public speaker.Įarly life, education, military service 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 19 and also included Robert Ferro, Edmund White and Felice Picano. Most of his adult life has been spent in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a small town in Florida. Dancer from the Dance, Ground Zero, The Kingdom of SandĪndrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, born on the island of Aruba.
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