Andre Dubus III

The novel "Gone So Long" was published in 2018. Daniel Ahearn committed a violent act that changed the lives of many, including members of his own family. Forty years later and sick, he aims to set things right. He is especially set on visiting his estranged daughter, whom he has not seen in decades.

In November 2018 Oprah Winfrey was a guest at UMass Lowell, which is considered the results of an over three-year effort made by Dubus. He met Winfrey in 2000 when appearing on her show, after the release of his novel House of Sand and Fog.

Dirty Love was also included in the Editors Choice section of the New York Times. For the 2013 audio book, read by Dubus, he won the AudioFile Earphone Award.

His 2011 memoir Townie tells of growing up poor in Haverhill after his parents' divorce, street fighting, and eventually boxing, and deals extensively with his relationship with his father.

Dubus's novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Booksense Book of the Year. It was an Oprah Book Club selection and was on the New York Times bestseller list. The 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for three Oscars, a Golden Globe and 39 other prizes. It won 13 nominations.

Dubus's novel, House of Sand and Fog (1999), was a finalist for the National Book Award and was adapted for an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. The book was a No. 1 New York Times best-seller.

Dubus's work has been included in The Best American Essays 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the Pushcart Prize. He was a finalist for the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Andre Dubus III (born September 11, 1959) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.