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  Andre Dubus III recalls his upbringing in a Massachusetts mill town, and the tormentors he and his siblings had to fight through.
  Andre Dubus III recounts the story of his childhood on the edge of the middle class, looking in.
  WHEN Maggie, the wife of Peter Krause's character in ''After the Fall,'' screams, ''Should never have gotten married -- every man I ever knew they hate their wives,'' she could be speaking for any of the wives or husbands -- including the one Mr....
  Getting a movie made in Hollywood is about perception, luck and timing. Ask Larry Gross, a veteran screenwriter whose script for a film based on three novellas by André Dubus gathered dust for 23 years. Then the writer-director Todd Field turned...
  Weather Imitates Art It wasn't a weather forecast; it was just a line near the beginning of Chekhov's drama ''The Seagull'': ''I wouldn't be surprised if it stormed tonight.'' Within minutes, it did, and big names on both sides of the footlights...
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  Fruit From the Literary Tree; Young Authors Find Their Parents' Fame a Boon and a Bane
  Gautama Chopra freely admits that his last name helped sell his novel. His first agent was a friend of his father, the best-selling New Age guru Deepak Chopra. His publisher, Amber-Allen, was the publisher of his father's blockbuster ''The Seven...
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  The Lives They Lived: Gina Berriault, b. 1926 - Andre Dubus, b. 1937; What Writer's Writers Write
  The saddest words of tongue or pen? ''Writer's writer,'' a synonym for obscurity. Every writer understands exactly what that fearful possessive hints at: a modicum of professional admiration accompanied -- or subverted -- by dim public recognition...
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  To the Editor: Jonathan Mahler serves us well by reminding us (''The Transformation of Andre Dubus,'' Aug. 1) of the recently deceased Andre Dubus and by putting his life and writings in perspective of the transformation that resulted from his...
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  The Transformation of Andre Dubus
  ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S ''In Another Country'' was one of Andre Dubus's favorite short stories. It's minimalistic, like many of Dubus's own stories, and it involves the military, a common theme in Dubus's writing. It is set in a wartime hospital in Milan,...