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How to pronounce Andre Dubus III: ahn-dray duh-BYOOSE (last syllable rhymes with use)
Andre Dubus III is the author of Such Kindness and eight other books, including the bestsellers Townie and House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award Finalist in Fiction and an Oprah's Book Club selection. He lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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What was it like growing up in your household, with a writer for a father?
Well, like most kids, I didn't pay attention to what my dad did, I just
wasn't interested. My dad and Mom divorced when I was around 10, and I didn't
live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I
wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing
until I was about 15. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special;
he's still one of my favorite writers. I grew up in a pretty working-class
neighborhood, and my friends didn't have a lot of books in their houses, though
I did. And though I didn't pick up a lot of those books off of the shelf, I grew
up knowing that it was part of a full life.
Is being a writer something that you always aspired to, or did you have an epiphany at some point in your life?
I did have an epiphany, I actually aspired to do something quite
different. I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and
I was a pretty political, left-wing, type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of
work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very
romantic and passionate about it. I was a Ph.D. candidate in ...
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