Tobias Wolff
Author of This Boy's Life
About the Author
Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama on June 19, 1945. He served in the military as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War. He received a B.A. in 1972 and a M.A. in 1975 from the University of Oxford and a M.A. in 1978 from Stanford University. He held faculty positions at Stanford show more University, Goddard College, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University. He was also a reporter for the Washington Post. His first collection of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, won the St. Lawrence award for fiction in 1982. His other works include Back in the World, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War, The Night in Question, Old School, and Our Story Begins. The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 1985. This Boy's Life: A Memoir won the Los Angeles Times Book prize in 1989 and was made into a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. He also won three O. Henry Awards in 1980, 1981, and 1985 and the National Medal of Arts in 2015. He edited several anthologies of short stories including Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Tobias Wolff
Meus Dias de Escritor 2 copies
Bible [short story] 2 copies
Kundenkommunikation in sozialen Medien Analyse und Steuerung der Kommunikationsprozesse (2017) 1 copy
Smokers 1 copy
Associated Works
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 1,147 copies, 3 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 458 copies, 3 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduction — 385 copies, 3 reviews
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 356 copies, 6 reviews
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contributor — 129 copies, 1 review
American Fiction, Volume 1: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers (1990) — Introduction, some editions — 18 copies
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Antaeus No. 37, Spring 1980 - On the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz — Contributor — 2 copies
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Contributor — 2 copies
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver Had His Cake and Ate It Too (1990) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Wolff, Tobias Jonathan Ansell
- Birthdate
- 1945-06-19
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Places of residence
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA - Education
- Stanford University (MA ∙ English)
Hertford College, Oxford - Occupations
- teacher
writer - Relationships
- Wolff, Geoffrey (brother)
- Awards and honors
- PEN/Malamud Award (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [2001])
Whiting Writers' Award (1989)
PEN/Faulkner Award (1985)
National Medal of Arts (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014)
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Reviews
This collection strikes a good mix between well-known tales and exceptional pieces by lesser-known writers. The stories I read by authors I had never heard of before pleasantly surprised me.
I listened to the Audible version. Stories were chilling, prophetic, suspenseful, cautionary. Liked the reader very much!
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- Rating
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