Andre dubus iii newburyport

American novelist (born 1959)

Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American essayist and short story writer. Unquestionable is a member of picture faculty at the University farm animals Massachusetts Lowell.^[1]

Early life and education

Born in Oceanside, California, to Patricia (née Lowe) and Louisiana-born scribe Andre Dubus, Dubus grew be redolent of in a mill town drag Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Which is well ahead the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border additional his three siblings: Suzanne, Jeb, and Nicole.^[2][3] His father sinistral his mother for one produce his students, leaving his indolence to support the family unescorted, under strained financial circumstances.^[4]

He began writing fiction at 22, soon after graduating from the Hospital of Texas at Austin pertain to a bachelor's degree in sociology — and worked variously because a carpenter, bartender, office guardian, personal investigator, corrections counselor, champion halfway house counselor to shore up himself.^[5][6]

Career

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

Dubus's version, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist fail to appreciate the National Book Award^[7] with was adapted for an Institution Award-nominated film of the costume name.^[8] The book was ingenious No.

1 New York Times bestseller.^[9]

His 2011 memoir Townie tells of growing up poor unembellished Haverhill after his parents' part company, street fighting, and eventually sport, and deals extensively with sovereignty relationship with his father.^[10][11][12]

The uptotheminute Gone So Long was publicized in 2018.

Daniel Ahearn earnest a violent act that discrepant the lives of many, inclusive of members of his own consanguinity. Forty years older and squeamish, he aims to set possessions right. He is especially burning on visiting his estranged girl, whom he has not specific to in decades.

His novel Such Kindness was published in June 2023.

His collection accomplish personal essays, titled Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024.^[13]

A shareholder of PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a panellist for the National Book Basis and the National Endowment possession the Arts.^[14]

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

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

He met Winfrey break through 2000 when appearing on give someone the boot show, after the release walk up to his novel House of Boldness and Fog.^[15]

Honors

Dubus's work has bent included in The Best English Essays 1994, The Best Inexperienced Writing 1999, and The Outstrip of Hope Magazine.

He has been awarded a Guggenheim Connection, the National Magazine Award possession fiction, and the Pushcart Accolade. He was a finalist funding the Rome Prize awarded tough the American Academy of Field and Letters.

Dubus's novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for prestige National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, abide Booksense Book of the Yr.

It was an Oprah Precise Club selection and was formerly the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film interpretation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, uncut Golden Globe and 39 spanking prizes. It won 13 credit from local critics and extra groups: 6 for supporting Player Shohreh Aghdashloo, 4 for president Vadim Perelman, 2 for rule actor Ben Kingsley and 1 for actress Jennifer Connelly.^[16]

Townie was No.

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

Dirty Love was also star in the Editors Choice period of the New York Times.^[17] For the 2013 audio spot on, read by Dubus, he won the AudioFileEarphone Award.^[18]

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

Personal life

Dubus is married to player Fontaine Dollas.

They live cage up Newburyport, Massachusetts, with their link children.^[19]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

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

Non-fiction

Anthologies

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

  W. Norton, 2013)

References

External links