Andrew Holleran

| birth_place = Aruba | education = University of Pennsylvania | alma_mater = Harvard University (BA) University of Iowa (MA, MFA) | notableworks = * ''Dancer from the Dance'' * ''Ground Zero''

| occupation = Novelist, essayist | awards = * Ferro-Grumley Award * Bill Whitehead Award * Stonewall Book Award

}} Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, born on the island of Aruba. Most of his adult life has been spent in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a small town in Florida. 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 is the only surviving member of the gay writer's group The Violet Quill. Historically protective of his privacy, the author continues to use the pseudonym Andrew Holleran as a writer and public speaker. Holleran is often considered to be among the most acclaimed voices in American gay literature. In 2015, gay writer Larry Kramer called him "our Fitzgerald and Hemingway, but for one thing: He writes better than both of them". Provided by Wikipedia