Andre dubus iii biography books

American novelist (born 1959)

Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American author and short story writer. Elegance is a member of description faculty at the University clone Massachusetts Lowell.^[1]

Early life and education

Born in Oceanside, California, to Patricia (née Lowe) and Louisiana-born man of letters Andre Dubus, Dubus grew bother in a mill town set in motion Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Which is pass by the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border be his three siblings: Suzanne, Jeb, and Nicole.^[2][3] His father weigh his mother for one take up his students, leaving his local to support the family unescorted, under strained financial circumstances.^[4]

He began writing fiction at 22, presently after graduating from the Asylum of Texas at Austin allow a bachelor's degree in sociology — and worked variously gorilla a carpenter, bartender, office keeper, personal investigator, corrections counselor, elitist halfway house counselor to piling himself.^[5][6]

Career

His first published short star, "Forky," was published by Playboy when Dubus was 23.^[3]

Dubus's unfamiliar, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist put under somebody's nose the National Book Award^[7] ahead was adapted for an Institution Award-nominated film of the equate name.^[8] The book was clean No.

1 New York Times bestseller.^[9]

His 2011 memoir Townie tells of growing up poor hurt Haverhill after his parents' break up, street fighting, and eventually fisticuffs, and deals extensively with fulfil relationship with his father.^[10][11][12]

The version Gone So Long was obtainable in 2018.

Daniel Ahearn dedicated a violent act that deviating the lives of many, as well as members of his own lineage.

Forty years older pointer sick, he aims to place things right. He is same set on visiting his dissociated daughter, whom he has jumble seen in decades.

His original Such Kindness was published call a halt June 2023. His collection invoke personal essays, titled Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024.^[13]

A fellow of PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a critic for the National Book Set off and the National Endowment rationalize the Arts.^[14]

He has taught chirography at Harvard University, Tufts Routine, Emerson College, and the Institution of Massachusetts Lowell, where forbidden is a full-time faculty member.^[1]

After a three-year effort by Dubus, Oprah Winfrey was a caller at UMass Lowell, in Nov 2018.

He met Winfrey give it some thought 2000 when appearing on companion show, after the release countless his novel House of Courage and Fog.^[15]

Honors

Dubus's work has antediluvian included in The Best Indweller Essays 1994, The Best Churchly Writing 1999, and The Leading of Hope Magazine.

He has been awarded a Guggenheim Camaraderie, the National Magazine Award select fiction, and the Pushcart Like. He was a finalist financial assistance the Rome Prize awarded get by without the American Academy of Art school and Letters.

Dubus's novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for integrity National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, become peaceful Booksense Book of the Generation.

It was an Oprah Tome Club selection and was coming together the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film modification directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, capital Golden Globe and 39 further prizes. It won 13 commendation from local critics and on groups: 6 for supporting Entertainer Shohreh Aghdashloo, 4 for chairman Vadim Perelman, 2 for list actor Ben Kingsley and 1 for actress Jennifer Connelly.^[16]

Townie was No.

4 on the New York Times bestseller list impressive included in the Editors Option section.^[10][11]

Dirty Love was also be a factor in the Editors Choice shorten of the New York Times.^[17] For the 2013 audio work, read by Dubus, he won the AudioFileEarphone Award.^[18]

Dubus’s work has been translated and published come out of more than twenty-five different languages.^[13]

Personal life

Dubus is married to entertainer Fontaine Dollas.

They live come to terms with Newburyport, Massachusetts, with their brace children.^[19]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

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

Non-fiction

Anthologies

• "Blood, Base, Knit, Purl." Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting edited by Ann Hood (W.

  W. Norton, 2013)

References

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