Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. The Violet Quill included other prolific gay writers like Edmund White and Felice Picano. Garber, who has historically been very protective of his privacy, uses "Andrew Holleran" as his pseudonym.
Dancer from the Dance, his first novel, was published in 1978.
Its narrative takes place among the discotheques of New York City and Fire Island, although it is Fire Island, with its literal distance from the mainland, that provides a pivotal backdrop for the novel. Dancer shares many of its locales, as well as its themes, with Faggots, Larry Kramer"s novel, published in the same year.
Holleran"s second novel was, and his third is titled. Foreign a number of years Holleran taught creative writing at American University in Washington, District of Columbia, and he continues to publish short fiction in gay short story collections like M2M: New Literary Fiction and frequently publishes articles in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide He graduated from Harvard College in 1965.
He was a member of The Violet Quill, a gay writer"s group that met briefly from 1980-1981.