NEWBURY — Local author Andre Dubus III will be the keynote speaker at the Exeter LitFest on Saturday, April 6, organizers announced earlier this week.
“We are thrilled to welcome Andre Dubus III to Exeter,” said LitFest Board Member Katie Adams. “A prize-winning writer in the midst of an illustrious career, he writes bracingly about class, masculinity, and very often about New England itself. Exeter readers are in for a treat.”
Dubus will speak during the afternoon of April 6 in the Exeter Town Hall during the annual literary festival. His latest novel which is a collection of personal essays titled, “Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin,” is forthcoming in March.
His 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,. He is also the editor of “Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories.”
Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
The Exeter LitFest aims to shine a spotlight on the wealth of local talent in the Exeter area as well as bringing in featured authors and poets from the region. Events at the literary festival, held in the historic Exeter Town Hall, are always free and open to all.
Held for the first time in 2019, the Exeter LitFest is a non-profit organization that hosts an annual event the first weekend of April. The inaugural festival included a keynote by “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown, as well as events with Joe Hill, Brendan Dubois, and N.H. Teen Poet Laureate Cate Dixon.
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