Andre Dubus (1936–1999) was a short-story writer and essayist, whose books include The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), The Last Worthless Evening (1986), and Meditations from a Moveable Chair (1999). “The Blackberry Patch,” along with several other previously uncollected stories, is included in a new edition of Dubus’s fiction titled The Cross Country Runner: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Vol. 3, and published by David R. Godine, Publisher. Copyright Andre Dubus 1966.
