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Dubus Sr., with a sixteen-month-old Andre in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Andre's sister Elizabeth is on the left and Kathryn is on the right. The family is bundled up for the Louisiana winter, which Kathryn remembers as being much colder during her childhood than it is now.

Dubus with classmates from his first- or second-grade class, around 1940. Dubus is second from the left, displaying what his father called his “ethereal face.”

The Dubus family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, around 1941. Andre Jr., stands in front, while his father, Andre Sr.; mother, Katherine; and sisters, Elizabeth and Kathryn, from left to right, stand in the back.

Dubus's freshman or sophomore school photo from Cathedral High School, around 1951. Dubus gave this photo to his recently married sister with a note on the back saying, jokingly, “To a good cook from the only one polite enough to eat her meals.”

A fifteen-year-old Dubus, seen here in 1952.

Dubus as a young Marine in Quantico, Virginia, where he received his training and became a commissioned officer in 1957.

Dubus around 1967, while he was working at Bradford College in Bradford, Massachusetts. This photo was taken by one of his students.

A photo of Dubus taken by a fellow student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, around 1965. This photo was used as a dust jacket picture as well as in a newspaper story from Dubus's hometown announcing the publication of his first novel,
The Lieutenant
(1967).

Dubus in Iowa with his daughter Cadence in 1983. Cadence was born on June 11, 1982.

Dubus with his sister Kathryn in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in October of 1987, the first time Kathryn saw Andre after the car accident that claimed his left leg.

The signatures of six participants in a lecture series organized by Seattle Arts & Lectures from 1989 to 1990. Among the participants were John McPhee, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus.

A typed manuscript of Dubus's personal essay “Love in the Morning,” which centers on Dubus's spiritual experience of morning Mass while confined to a wheelchair. It features a note and his signature, dated September 20, 1994. He later said of the essay that he “knew before starting it that it was coming like grace to me, and I could receive it or bungle it, but I could not hold it at bay.”