9/2/11
SLU Writers Series Opens With Andre Dubus III, Author Of Memoir 'Townie'
CANTON - The St. Lawrence University Writers Series begins on Thursday, September 15, with an appearance by acclaimed novelist Andre Dubus III, author of the 2011 memoir Townie as well as the novels The Garden of Last Days and House of Sand and Fog. He will speak and read from his works at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Dubus 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 bachelor's degree in sociology. His work has been widely anthologized and Dubus has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for fiction and The Pushcart Prize.
An Academy Award-nominated motion picture and published in 20 languages, 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.
Other writers on campus for the series this academic year are Ellen Akins, October 6; Kevin Young, December 1; Jaimy Gordon, February 2; Joanie Mackowski, March 22; Kristin Kimball, April 25; and Mark Slouka, April 26.
