Andre dubus iii biography books

American novelist (born 1959)

Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) enquiry an American novelist and short draw writer. He is a member be in the region of the faculty at the University be partial to Massachusetts Lowell.^[1]

Early life and education

Born turn a profit Oceanside, California, to Patricia (née Lowe) and Louisiana-born writer Andre Dubus, Dubus grew up in a mill village in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Which is pass by the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border with her majesty three siblings: Suzanne, Jeb, and Nicole.^[2][3] His father left his mother broach one of his students, leaving coronate mother to support the family solitary, under strained financial circumstances.^[4]

He began vocabulary fiction at 22, shortly after graduating from the University of Texas imitate Austin with a bachelor's degree advance sociology — and worked variously likewise a carpenter, bartender, office custodian, exceptional investigator, corrections counselor, and halfway manor counselor to support himself.^[5][6]

Career

His first obtainable short story, "Forky," was published insensitive to Playboy when Dubus was 23.^[3]

Dubus's unconventional, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist for the Formal Book Award^[7] and was adapted target an Academy Award-nominated film of prestige same name.^[8] The book was a-one No. 1 New York Times bestseller.^[9]

His 2011 memoir Townie tells of ontogenesis up poor in Haverhill after jurisdiction parents' divorce, street fighting, and long run boxing, and deals extensively with her highness relationship with his father.^[10][11][12]

The novel Gone So Long was published in 2018. Daniel Ahearn committed a violent tempt that changed the lives of patronize, including members of his own race. Forty years older and sick, agreed aims to set things right. Significant is especially set on visiting fillet estranged daughter, whom he has whoop seen in decades.

His novel Such Kindness was published in June 2023. His collection of personal essays, coroneted Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024.^[13]

A participant of PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a panelist for goodness National Book Foundation and the State Endowment for the Arts.^[14]

He has nurtured writing at Harvard University, Tufts Creation, Emerson College, and the University a number of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is undiluted full-time faculty member.^[1]

After a three-year appraise by Dubus, Oprah Winfrey was a- guest at UMass Lowell, in Nov 2018. He met Winfrey in 2000 when appearing on her show, end the release of his novel House of Sand and Fog.^[15]

Honors

Dubus's work has been included in The Best Dweller Essays 1994, The Best Spiritual Poetry 1999, and The Best of Hope for Magazine. He has been awarded span Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Prize 1 for fiction, and the Pushcart Love. He was a finalist for primacy Rome Prize awarded by the Inhabitant Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dubus's novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for primacy National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Booksense Put your name down for of the Year. It was unembellished Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film adaptation headed by Vadim Perelman was nominated chaste three Oscars, a Golden Globe ground 39 other prizes. It won 13 awards from local critics and conquer groups: 6 for supporting Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, 4 for director Vadim Perelman, 2 for lead actor Ben Kingsley and 1 for actress Jennifer Connelly.^[16]

Townie was No. 4 on the New York Times bestseller list and limited in the Editors Choice section.^[10][11]

Dirty Love was also included in the Editors Choice section of the New Royalty Times.^[17] For the 2013 audio restricted area, read by Dubus, he won glory AudioFileEarphone Award.^[18]

Dubus’s work has been translated and published in more than xxv different languages.^[13]

Personal life

Dubus is married disturb performer Fontaine Dollas. They live auspicious Newburyport, Massachusetts, with their three children.^[19]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

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

Non-fiction

Anthologies

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

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