Andrew Holleran

He received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2007. He also received the 2007 Stonewall Book Award for Grief.

Holleran's second novel was Nights in Aruba (1983), and his third is titled The Beauty of Men (1996). The Beauty of Men takes place in central Florida where the main character, a 47-year-old gay man, has gone to take care of his quadriplegic mother.

Following his move to New York City, Holleran spent nearly ten years temping and bar tending before 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. Dancer from the Dance is regarded as a major contribution to post-Stonewall gay male literature and enjoys a cult status in the gay community.

Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1943), an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, born and partly raised in Aruba, in the Dutch Caribbean. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. He was a member of The Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81. 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.

Holleran, born in Aruba in 1943 as Eric Garber, spent much of his childhood there before attending Harvard College, where he graduated in 1965.