Andre Dubus III
Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference
Profile
Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, and #1 New York Times bestseller, made into the Academy Award-nominated film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. His most recent novel, Such Kindness, was one of Amazon’s “Best Books of 2023, Top 100,” a listing he previously earned in 2018, along with many other “Best Books” rankings, for Gone So Long. Dubus’s fiction also includes The Garden of Last Days, another New York Times bestseller, and the quartet of loosely linked novellas, Dirty Love. He is the editor of Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories (Godine, 2023.)
Dubus is also a celebrated writer of nonfiction. His bestselling memoir, Townie, was the winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, was published by W.W. Norton in March 2024. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. His books are published in over twenty-five languages. 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.