While in Germany he made his first sale of a short story, to The New Yorker.
A "fluke of the computer system" sent him not to Vietnam but to West Germany. Then, after one year at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, which he found "a drag," in 1968 Holleran found himself "in the clutches of a Kafkaesque nightmare" when he was drafted into the U.S. None of Holleran's writings from this period were ever published, but he did attain both an MA and an MFA from Iowa. and José Donoso, he formed a long-lasting friendship with fellow student Robert Ferro. After graduating from Harvard with a BA in English in 1965, he followed Taylor to the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, in part to postpone "the horror of law school." Īt Iowa, where Holleran's teachers included Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 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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