Andre Dubus III

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, a #4 New York Times bestseller

and a New York Times “Editors Choice”. His work has been included in The Best American

Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies, and his novel, House of Sand and Fog was a

finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an

Academy Award-nominated film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. His 2013

novella collection, Dirty Love, was listed as a “Notable Book” by The Washington Post and The

New York Times, and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice” and a Kirkus “Starred

Best Book of 2013”. His 2018 novel, Gone So Long, was named on many “Best Books” lists,

including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” and “The Best

Books of 2018, Top 100”, Amazon. His most recent novel, Such Kindness, was one of

Amazon’s “The Best Books of 2023, Top 100”. His acclaimed collection of personal essays,

Ghost Dog: On Killers and Kin, was published in March 2024. He is also the editor of Reaching

Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories, (Godine, 2023.)

Mr. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes,

and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His

books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.