Andre dubus sr biography

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I wrote this essay last year. Being at home a lot and delving deeply into narrative models, I had to return to the master of interior emotion, Andre Dubus, whose work and whose person I was both introduced to in my college days. He didn’t teach there but had until recently, and they taught his stories in the creative writing classes. He came around from time to time, did some of his writing in the library, and had a friend who owned a bookshop in Haverhill, The Phoenix Bookshhop, where I bought a lot of books. Some of them were second hand and had the words Property of Andre Dubus written in them. Anyway, here’s an essay on the power of the ordinary.

Every writer has at least one precursor who serves as a lodestone--someone whose example recharges their literary batteries. If one lives long enough there can be more than one, for each period in a writer’s growth. One in particular to whom I return again and again is Andre Dubus. He taught at my alma mater for a dozen years before I arrived, but circumstances

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Andre Dubus

American writer

For the author of House of Sand and Fog and other novels and story collections, see Andre Dubus III.

Andre Jules Dubus II (August 11, 1936 – February 24, 1999) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.^[1]

Biography

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Early life and education

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Andre Jules Dubus II was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the youngest child of Katherine (Burke) and André Jules Dubus, a Cajun-Irish Catholic family. His two elder siblings are Kathryn and Beth. James Lee Burke is his first cousin.^[2] His surname is pronounced "Duh-BYOOSE", with the accent falling on the second syllable, as in "profuse". Dubus grew up in the Bayou country in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was educated by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order that emphasized literature and writing. Dubus graduated from nearby McNeese State College in 1958 as a journalism and English major. Dubus then spent six years in the Marine Corps, eventually rising to the rank of captain. At this time he married his first wife and started a family. After leaving the Marine Corps, Dubus moved with his wife and four children to Iowa City, where he later graduated from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in creative writing, stud