Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman, House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, a New York Times bestseller. His memoir, Townie, was published in February 2011 with W.W. Norton & Co. and is now available in paperback. A #4 New York Times bestseller, it is a New York Times “Editors’ Choice” and is listed on many “Top Ten Non-Fiction Book” lists of 2011, including The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Esquire magazine. Townie also received the “2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature”. Andre’s work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for fiction, The Pushcart Prize, and was a Finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters.