^ Profile Archived March 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, accessed September 15, 2015.What happens when the so-called American Dream - a life of financial independence and home ownership - turns into the American Nightmare? For some, a house is just a place to stop and rest at night.^ "Bliue Flower Arts Profile: Andre Dubus III".^ "DIRTY LOVE by Andre Dubus III Read by Andre Dubus III | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine".^ "This is an absolute dream come true for UMass Lowell"."Book Review - Townie - By Andre Dubus III". "Andre Dubus III Traces a Violent Youth in 'Townie' - Review". ^ a b Garner, Dwight (22 February 2011).^ "Independents/Chain Bestseller List".^ Nominees & Winners for the 76th Academy Awards, "Nominees & Winners for the 76th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences"."In the footsteps of the 9/11 hijackers: For his latest novel, Andre Dubus III researched and imagined his way into the minds of terrorists–and an American stripper who danced for them". ^ Johnson, Sarah Anne (September 2009).^ a b William Plummer (March 12, 2001).^ Andre Dubus profile, accessed September 15, 2015.^ a b "Andre Dubus III | Writers in Residence | Kerouac Center | UMass Lowell".ĭubus’s work has been translated and published in more than twenty-five different languages. For the 2013 audio book, read by Dubus, he won the AudioFile Earphone Award. ĭirty Love was also included in the Editors Choice section of the New York Times. 4 on the New York Times bestseller list and included in the Editors Choice section. The 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, a Golden Globe and 39 other prizes. It was an Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list. He was a finalist for the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.ĭubus'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. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the Pushcart Prize. Honors ĭubus's work has been included in The Best American Essays 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He met Winfrey in 2000 when appearing on her show, after the release of his novel House of Sand and Fog. Īfter a three-year effort by Dubus, Oprah Winfrey was a guest at UMass Lowell, in November 2018. 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. Ī member of PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Book Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His novel Such Kindness was scheduled to be published in June of 2023, to be followed by a collection of personal essays titled Ghost Dogs, which will be published in 2024. He is especially set on visiting his estranged daughter, whom he has not seen in decades. Forty years older and sick, he aims to set things right. Daniel Ahearn committed a violent act that changed the lives of many, including members of his own family. The novel Gone So Long was published in 2018. 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. ĭubus's novel, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist for the National Book Award and was adapted for an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. His first published short story, "Forky," was published by Playboy when Dubus was 23. He began writing fiction at 22, shortly after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in sociology - and worked variously as a carpenter, bartender, office custodian, personal investigator, corrections counselor, and halfway house counselor to support himself. His father left his mother for one of his students, leaving his mother to support the family alone, under straightened financial circumstances. Early life and education īorn in Oceanside, California, to Patricia (née Lowe) and Louisiana-born writer Andre Dubus, Dubus grew up in mill towns in the Merrimack River valley along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border with his three siblings: Suzanne, Jeb, and Nicole. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. University of Texas at Austin (B.A.,1981)Īndre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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