Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning short story collection How It Was for Me. His fiction has appeared in such publications as Esquire, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Story. The Path of Minor Planets, his first novel, was published by Picador in October 2001. His next novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, will come out in February 2004 from FSG. He lives in San Francisco, California.