Award-winning author Andre Dubus (1936-1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus's collections of short fiction include
Separate Flights (1975),
Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and
Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Another collection,
Finding a Girl in America, features the story "Killings," which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film
In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei.