Award-winning author Andre Dubus III will hold a reading and book signing Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Texas State University’s Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center.
The 7 p.m. event is free and open to the public. The KAP Literary Center is located at 508 W. Center Street in Kyle.
Dubus’ nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers “House of Sand and Fog,” “The Garden of Last Days” and his memoir, “Townie.” His most recent novel, “Such Kindness,” was published in June 2023, and a collection of personal essays, “Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin,” was published in March 2024. He is also the editor of “Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories,” (Godine, 2023.) His story collection, “Make It Black,” is forthcoming.
Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in more than 25 languages, and he teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
This event is sponsored by the Burdine Johnson Foundation and the Department of English. For more information, contact Mariah Price at kapliterary@txstate.edu.