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Charles Dubow (born April 7, 1963) is an American novelist. His first book is Indiscretion, published on February 5, 2013 by William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins. In addition to being published in North America, Indiscretion is also being published in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, Portugal, Brazil and Bulgaria. It has been selected by independent booksellers in the U.S. for the February 2013 Indie Next List. It has also received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Dubow was born in Manhattan in 1963 and lived on the Upper East Side for the first thirteen years of his life. As a child, he attended the Collegiate School, a private boy’s school on the Upper West Side. He spent weekends and summers in his family house on Georgica Pond in East Hampton, Long Island, which served as the inspiration for Indiscretion. After boarding school, he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ct., and graduated with a B.A. in English from New York University in 1987. Following his sophomore year at Wesleyan he took a year off and went to work on a sheep ranch in New Zealand for six months. When he returned to the U.S. he studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan and even interned at an investment bank. After writing several unpublished novels in his twenties, and living in London and Rome before resettling in New York, he went into the magazine business, eventually becoming one of the founding editors of Forbes.com and later an editor at Businessweek.com. Following a health scare in 2007, he decided to start writing a novel based on an idea he had first conceived ten years earlier. That novel was Indiscretion. Dubow met his wife Melinda in 1991 in New York City. They married in 1996 and today they live in the city with their two children, William and Isabella, and chocolate Labrador Luke.

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