Andre Dubus (1936–1999)
Author of Selected Stories
About the Author
Andre Dubus was a short-story writer, essayist, and educator. Debus was a former Marine who taught college for 20 years while submitting his stories to small literary magazines. In the summer of 1986, he was hit by a car in Massachusetts, where he had stopped to help an accident victim. He spent show more the rest of his life confined to a wheelchair. Debus returned to writing after authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, and John Updike held a benefit that helped defer his medical expenses. His 1997 collection of short stories, Dancing After Hours, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Rea Award. He received the PEN/Malamud Award, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from both the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. Andre Dubus died on February 24, 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Andre Dubus
The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 2 (Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Andre Dubus)… (2018) 21 copies
The Cross Country Runner: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 3 (Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Andre… (2018) 16 copies
A Father's Story 1 copy
Killings {short story} 1 copy
Blessings 1 copy
Dubus Andre 1 copy
Associated Works
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (2004) — Contributor — 557 copies
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contributor — 188 copies
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Contributor — 40 copies
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contributor — 37 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Dubus, Andre Jules, II
- Birthdate
- 1936-08-11
- Date of death
- 1999-02-24
- Burial location
- Elmwood Cemetery, Bradford, Massachusetts, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
- Place of death
- Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- University of Iowa (MFA|1966)
- Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer - Relationships
- Dubus, Andre, III (son)
Burke, James Lee (cousin)
Dubus, Elizabeth Nell (sister) - Organizations
- United States Marine Corps
- Awards and honors
- PEN/Malamud Award (1991)
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellowship (1988)
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