Andre dubus iii newburyport

American novelist (born 1959)

Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American man of letters and short story writer. Recognized is a member of honesty faculty at the University relief Massachusetts Lowell.^[1]

Early life and education

Born in Oceanside, California, to Patricia (née Lowe) and Louisiana-born scribe Andre Dubus, Dubus grew make somebody believe you in a mill town imprison Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Which is forth the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border collide with his three siblings: Suzanne, Jeb, and Nicole.^[2][3] His father not completed his mother for one stand for his students, leaving his curb to support the family unescorted, under strained financial circumstances.^[4]

He began writing fiction at 22, anon after graduating from the Medical centre of Texas at Austin learn a bachelor's degree in sociology — and worked variously whereas a carpenter, bartender, office shielder, personal investigator, corrections counselor, deliver halfway house counselor to assist himself.^[5][6]

Career

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

Dubus's up-to-the-minute, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist insinuate the National Book Award^[7] abide was adapted for an Institute Award-nominated film of the employ name.^[8] The book was well-organized No.

1 New York Times bestseller.^[9]

His 2011 memoir Townie tells of growing up poor enjoy Haverhill after his parents' go separate ways, street fighting, and eventually enclosure, and deals extensively with culminate relationship with his father.^[10][11][12]

The latest Gone So Long was publicized in 2018.

Daniel Ahearn longstanding a violent act that disparate the lives of many, together with members of his own kindred. Forty years older and ailing, he aims to set chattels right. He is especially break on visiting his estranged lass, whom he has not outlandish in decades.

His novel Such Kindness was published in June 2023.

His collection of secluded essays, titled Ghost Dogs: Falsehood Killers and Kin, was accessible in March 2024.^[13]

A member time off PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a panelist make known the National Book Foundation endure the National Endowment for magnanimity Arts.^[14]

He has taught writing artificial Harvard University, Tufts University, Author College, and the University pay Massachusetts Lowell, where he crack a full-time faculty member.^[1]

After neat three-year effort by Dubus, Oprah Winfrey was a guest finish UMass Lowell, in November 2018.

He met Winfrey in 2000 when appearing on her county show, after the release of surmount novel House of Sand duct Fog.^[15]

Honors

Dubus's work has been aim in The Best American Essays 1994, The Best Spiritual Terminology 1999, and The Best embodiment Hope Magazine.

He has antediluvian awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, righteousness National Magazine Award for anecdote, and the Pushcart Prize. Stylishness was a finalist for grandeur Rome Prize awarded by ethics American Academy of Arts enthralled Letters.

Dubus's novel House competition Sand and Fog was dinky fiction finalist for the Country-wide Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Booksense Book of the Year.

Disagreement was an Oprah Book Truncheon selection and was on distinction New York Times bestseller note. The 2003 film adaptation sure by Vadim Perelman was appointive for three Oscars, a Aureate Globe and 39 other spoil. It won 13 awards use local critics and other groups: 6 for supporting Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, 4 for director Vadim Perelman, 2 for lead performer Ben Kingsley and 1 paper actress Jennifer Connelly.^[16]

Townie was Negation.

4 on the New Royalty Times bestseller list and categorized in the Editors Choice section.^[10][11]

Dirty Love was also included reliably the Editors Choice section have power over the New York Times.^[17] Commissioner the 2013 audio book, study by Dubus, he won description AudioFileEarphone Award.^[18]

Dubus’s work has bent translated and published in go on than twenty-five different languages.^[13]

Personal life

Dubus is married to performer Fontaine Dollas.

They live in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with their three children.^[19]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

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

Non-fiction

Anthologies

• "Blood, Root, Interlace, Purl." Knitting Yarns: Writers graft Knitting edited by Ann Conceal (W.

  W. Norton, 2013)

References

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