Talk:Andre Dubus

Disambiguation of links
Hello, I was trying to disambiguate all the links concerning the two varieties of Christian Brothers; could someone let me know which of the two it would be appropriate to point the link from this page at. Thanks in advance. Politepunk 20:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * A little googling tells me the Lasallian Brothers are appropriate. I've taken care of the link.--MikeJ9919 09:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Sectioning
I've just broken the article up into a number of shorter sections. It was a rather long block before, and a little bit jumbled in places. Anyway, I hope it's an improvement. It might benefit from some more re-jigging of the long biography section (Early / Late life). Cheers, --Plumbago 13:50, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Burial
This is Richard P. Gabriel. I am a big Andre Dubus fan, and grew up near where he lived until he died. It took me a while to find where Mr Dubus is buried, but I did. It is about a half mile from the house where he lived before he died on East Broadway in Haverhill. It's technically in a village called Rocks Village. A little while after he died, his son, Andre Dubus III, put up a simple wooden cross. Later, a Marine, flat headstone was installed, and finally a medium-sized, black stone headstone, and the wooden cross taken down. I like to visit cemeteries, and I visit Andre Dubus's several times a year when I travel to Haverhill to research a book I'm writing. I have searched for other, outside confirmation, but someone has incorrectly listed his burial site as Elmwood Cemetery in Find A Grave, and it's simply not correct. You can find with google another person who has tried to fix this bug, but it hasn't worked.

I found him by visiting the Haverhill Gazette offices and talking to the man who wrote his obituary.

He is buried about 50' behind another writer, John Bellairs, who wrote gothic children's stories.

Here is a photo of his headstone, which I took in 2008. There are other headstones you can see that might convince you, if you researched them, that this is Greenwood, not Elmwood. When I return to New England, I'll get a picture that shows Bellair's headstone in the foreground with Dubus's in the background, and then you can use any of the sites that talk about where Bellair's buried to verify what I'm saying. Rpgpoet (talk) 06:50, 21 November 2009 (UTC)