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  • An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing.
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      Newbury Author Andre Dubus III

      After a gritty early life influenced by fear, desertion, drugs, and violence amid the mills of Haverhill, Andre Dubus III emerged a prolific writer and steadfast family man. Upon the release of townie: a memoir the best-selling author sits down with Karen Propp at his Newbury home to retell his volatile past and how he overcame it. Photographs by Christopher Churchill

      Newbury author Andre Dubus III

      Andre Dubus III is a proud family man.Within minutes of meeting the acclaimed author at his Newbury home, he enthusiastically introduces me to his sister, Suzanne, his wife, Fontaine, and 13-year old son, Elias, the youngest of his three children. “Are you hungry? Want some lasagna?” he booms, gesturing to a casserole dish covered in tin foil. “I made it myself.”

      He gives me a tour of his house-capacious rooms, vaulted ceilings-that he and his younger brother, Jeb, built. “At the time it seemed like an important thing to be doing,” says the author, best

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      To be the writerly son of a writerly father is not always the easiest yrke. When that parent fryst vatten as famous as Andre Dubus, it must be doubly difficult. Throw in the fact that Dubus pere was by most accounts pretty bad at parenting, and you end up fishing in some dark waters indeed. But who knows: Maybe it can man for great art? One might ask Andre Dubus III.

      The son of the famous short story writer, Dubus III has managed to carve out an illustrious career as both a novelist and short story writer. His latest novel, Such Kindness, was released in June (look for a review bygd Joseph Peschel in America soon). It received a glowing endorsement in The New York Times from Isaac Fitzgerald, whose memoir, Dirtbag, Massachusetts, was reviewed earlier this year bygd America’s national correspondent, Michael J. O’Loughlin.

      The elder Dubus left his wife and four children for one of his writing students when the children were still ung (Dubus III was 10 years old). As a result, the