Dubin's Lives

Dubin's Lives is a novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud (1979). The title character is a biographer working on a life of D. H. Lawrence.

William Dubin of Vermont is living the comfortable life of an accomplished writer. Though his marriage to Kitty is slightly timeworn, it is stable and loving. While researching the biography of D. H. Lawrence, he meets twenty-three year old Fanny and begins an affair with her. Predictably, the consequences of this act rock Dubin's life and invite the reader to draw parallels with similar events in the lives of the writers Dubin is researching.