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Andre Dubus III was born in 1959 in Oceanside, California, and grew up in the former mill town of Haverhill, Massachusetts after his parents divorced. His father was the acclaimed short story writer Andre Dubus. Before establishing himself as a writer, he worked as a carpenter, bartender, halfway house counselor, and on road crews. His first published story won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1985.

His third novel, House of Sand and Fog (1999), became a number-one New York Times bestseller and was selected for Oprah’s Book Club. The novel tells the story of a former Iranian Air Force colonel and a recovering addict locked in a dispute over a California bungalow. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and was adapted into a 2003 film that received three Academy Award nominations. His memoir Townie (2011) recounts his rough upbringing in Haverhill and his complicated relationship with his father.

Dubus teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and three Pushcart Prizes. His other novels include The Garden of Last Days (2008), Gone So Long (2019), and Such Kindness (2023). His most recent book, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin (2024), collects personal essays written over 25 years.