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Andre Dubus III grew up in mill towns on the Merrimack River along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. He began writing fiction at age 22, just a few months after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors Degree in Sociology. Because he prefers to write in the morning, going from "the dream world to the dream world", as the Irish writer Edna O'Brien puts it, he took mainly night jobs: bartender, office cleaner, halfway house counselor, and for six months worked as an assistant to a private investigator/bounty hunter. Over the years he's also worked as a self-employed carpenter and college writing teacher.

Andre Dubus III is the author of five books: The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie, published in February 2011 with W.W. Norton & Co. and now available in paperback. A #4 New York Times bestseller, it is a New York Times "Editors Choice" and is named on many "Top Non-fiction Books of 2011" lists, including The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Library journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Esquire magazine. His work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for fiction, The Pushcart Prize, the 2012 "Arts and Letters Award in Literature" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters.

An Academy Award-nominated motion picture and published in twenty languages, his novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Booksense Book of the Year, and was an Oprah Book Club Selection and #1 New York Times bestseller. A member of PEN American Center, Andre Dubus III has served as a panelist for The National Book Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, Emerson College, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he is a full-time faculty member. He is married to performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.

Andre comes from a large literary family. He is the proud son of the late short story master, Andre Dubus, author of ten books: the novel The Lieutenant (1967), the story collections, Separate Flights (1975), Adultery and Other Choices (1977), Finding A Girl in America (1980), The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), and The Last Worthless Evening (1986). He was also the author of the novella Voices From The Moon (1984) and the essay collections Broken Vessels (1991) and Meditations From A Moveable Chair (1998). He died at age 62 in February 1999.

Andre Dubus III's aunt is the novelist Elizabeth Nell Dubus, mother of Delaune' Michel, also a novelist. His first cousin, once removed, is the acclaimed writer James Lee Burke, author of over thirty novels and short story collections and two-time winner of the Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. James Lee Burke’s youngest daughter is the novelist Alafair Burke.

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Please help support Andre's brother Jeb Dubus by supporting the Jeb Dubus Cancer Fund.

For more information, please visit: http://www.jebdubuscancerfund.com

This was created by a small network of family and friends to offer support to a man in need—an artist based in Amesbury, MA
who is living with cancer: John Ethan Burke Dubus, known as Jeb Dubus. Jeb is very well known in this area for his work as a master
builder and architectural designer, a classical guitarist, and a teacher. One of the projects he is perhaps most well known for is Amesbury
Artworks, an enterprise he developed and managed over the course of several years which provided studio, teaching, and exhibition space
for local artists, and which helped to galvanize a nascent arts community in Amesbury in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Jeb’s unbridled
passion for art and beauty, and his devotion to enthusing others to pursue their art has left an indelible mark on the local community.

Jeb’s greatest passion, however, is fatherhood. He is wonderfully devoted to his three young children (aged 11, 9 and 7), and continually
introduces them to new experiences and various forms of artistic expression—the latest being sculpting and welding! As a family, they enjoy
museums, rock climbing, hiking, theatre, movies, and Dad’s world-class cooking.

Due to severe symptoms from a late diagnosis, Jeb has been unable to work for the last few years. His house was lost to foreclosure, and he
struggles daily to accomplish simple everyday tasks. Our hope is to collect enough funds, though donations and ticket sales to an upcoming event on April 22nd, to provide him with financial security and peace of mind that will allow him to focus on healing and doing what he loves most—being an engaged and devoted father.

Any and all proceeds and/or donations received will support the Jeb Dubus Cancer Fund.

We are very grateful for your support.

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