American · b. 1959
Andre Dubus III writes about working-class lives with the empathy his father—the renowned short story writer Andre Dubus—brought to his own fiction. His 1999 novel "House of Sand and Fog" traced the catastrophic collision between an Iranian immigrant colonel and a recovering addict over a small California house. The National Book Award finalist and Oprah's Book Club selection established Dubus as a chronicler of Americans struggling at the margins of the dream.