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Andre Dubus III

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Template:Infobox writer Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Born in Oceanside, California, to Patricia (née Lowe) and Louisiana-born writer Andre Dubus, Dubus grew up on the Massachusetts–New Hampshire border in the former mill town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, with his three siblings: Suzanne, Jeb, and Nicole.<ref>Andre Dubus profile, enotes.com; accessed September 15, 2015.</ref><ref name="people">Template:Cite journal</ref> His father left his mother for one of his students, leaving his mother to support the family alone, under strained financial circumstances.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He began writing fiction at 22, shortly after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in sociology, and supported himself variously as a carpenter, bartender, office custodian, personal investigator, corrections counselor, and halfway house counselor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

CareerEdit

His first published short story, "Forky," was published by Playboy when Dubus was 23.<ref name="people" />

Dubus's novel, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist for the National Book Award<ref>1999 National Book Awards, https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1999</ref> and was adapted for an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name.<ref>Nominees & Winners for the 76th Academy Awards, {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The book was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His 2011 memoir Townie tells of growing up poor in Haverhill after his parents' divorce, street fighting, and eventually boxing, and deals extensively with his relationship with his father.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The novel Gone So Long was published in 2018. Daniel Ahearn committed a violent act that changed the lives of many, including members of his own family. Forty years older and sick, he aims to set things right. He is especially set on visiting his estranged daughter, whom he has not seen in decades.

His novel Such Kindness was published in June 2023. His collection of personal essays, titled Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024.<ref name="mainemedia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A member of PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Book Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, Emerson College, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is a full-time faculty member.<ref name=":2" />

After a three-year effort by Dubus, Oprah Winfrey was a guest at UMass Lowell, in November 2018. He met Winfrey in 2000 when appearing on her show, after the release of his novel House of Sand and Fog.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

HonorsEdit

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Dubus discussing Dirty Love

Dubus's work has been included in The Best American Essays 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the Pushcart Prize. He was a finalist for the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dubus's novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Booksense Book of the Year. It was an Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, a Golden Globe and 39 other prizes. It won 13 awards from local critics and other groups: 6 for supporting Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, 4 for director Vadim Perelman, 2 for lead actor Ben Kingsley and 1 for actress Jennifer Connelly.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Townie was No. 4 on the New York Times bestseller list and included in the Editors Choice section.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

Dirty Love was also included in the Editors Choice section of the New York Times.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For the 2013 audio book, read by Dubus, he won the AudioFile Earphone Award.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Dubus’s work has been translated and published in more than twenty-five different languages.<ref name="mainemedia"/>

Personal lifeEdit

Dubus is married to performer Fontaine Dollas. They live in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with their three children.<ref>Profile Template:Webarchive, nshoremag.com; accessed September 15, 2015.</ref>

WorksEdit

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NovelsEdit

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Short story collectionsEdit

  • The Cage Keeper and Other Stories (1989). Contains 7 short stories:
    • "The Cage Keeper"
    • "Duckling Girl"
    • "Wolves in the Marsh"
    • "Forky"
    • "Mountains"
    • "White Trees, Hammer Moon"
    • "Last Dance"

Non-fictionEdit

  • Townie: A Memoir (W. W. Norton, 2011)
  • Ghost Dogs (a book of personal essays, W. W. Norton, 2024)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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AnthologiesEdit

  • "Blood, Root, Knit, Purl." Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting edited by Ann Hood (W. W. Norton, 2013)

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