Award-winning author Andre Dubus (1936โ1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubusโs 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 โKillings,โ which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei.ย