House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

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. In November 2018 Oprah Winfrey was a guest at UMass Lowell, which is considered the results of an over three-year effort made by Dubus. 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. Affiliations 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. To support himself, Dubus worked as a carpenter, bartender, office cleaner, personal investigator, corrections counselor, and halfway house counselor. He began writing fiction at age 22, a few months after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in sociology. 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.

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III