UMF creative writing program presents bestselling author Andre Dubus III

FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is proud to present best-selling author Andre Dubus III as the first writer in its fall 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. Dubus will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.

Dubus’ novels include, “House of Sand and Fog,” “The Garden of Last Days,” and “Bluesman.” He has a collection of short fiction called “The Cage Keeper and Other Stories” and will be releasing his memoir, “Townie,” in February 2011.

His best-selling novel, “House of Sand and Fog,” was a finalist for fiction for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Booksense Book of the Year award. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, made into an Academy Award-nominated motion picture and has been published in twenty languages.

Dubus has been published in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999 and The Best of Hope Magazine. He holds a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, The National Magazine Award for fiction and The Pushcart Prize. He was also a finalist from the Academy of Arts and Letters for the Rome Prize Fellowship.

Dubus teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and has also taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University and Emerson College. He is a member of PEN American Center and has been a panelist for the National Book Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.