Andrew Holleran

Andrew Holleran is an American novelist of the post-Stonewall generation, one of the finest chroniclers of gay life in the 1970s and 1980s. His debut Dancer from the Dance — set in the baths, discos and piers of pre-AIDS New York and Fire Island — became a cult classic, and his later novels Drowning Man and the essay collections continued his rueful, lyrical report.

Born Andrew Garber in North Carolina, Holleran wrote under a pen name that preserved a deeply private life. His work, which also includes studies of AIDS (essays in Ground Zero), is admired for its prose beauty and its honest melancholy, and it has gained a new generation of readers since the revival of interest in gay literature.