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Dubus grew up in the Bayou country in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was educated by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order that emphasized literature and writing. Dubus graduated from nearby McNeese State College in 1958 as a journalism and English major.
Andre Dubus III is the author of Gone So Long, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah’s Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award) and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Andre Dubus (born Aug. 11, 1936, Lake Charles, La., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 1999, Haverhill, Mass.) was an American short-story writer and novelist who is noted as a chronicler of the struggles of contemporary American men whose lives seem inexplicably to have gone wrong.
Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent novel, Such Kindness, was published in June 2023, and a collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024.
Feb 24, 1999 · Award-winning author Andre Dubus II (1936–1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus’s collections of short fiction include Separate Flights (1975), Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Jun 15, 2018 · Richard Russo on reading the short stories of Andre Dubus, the author of “Killings,” “Townies,” “The Pretty Girl,” and “A Father’s Story.”
