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Tobias Wolff

American author (born 1945)

For the German footballer, see Tobias Wolf. For the legal academic, see Tobias Barrington Wolff.

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.^[1]

His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997) and, since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Life and career

Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Rosemary (Loftus) from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son of a Jewish doctor and his wife.^[2]^[

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This Boy's Life

3.97 avg rating — 29,924 ratings — published 1989 — 38 editions

Old School

3.84 avg rating — 13,543 ratings — published 2003 — 47 editions

The Night in Question

4.15 avg rating — 6,095 ratings — published 1995 — 38 editions

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

4.10 avg rating — 3,434 ratings — published 1994 — 40 editions

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

4.12 avg rating — 2,680 ratings — published 1981 — 24 editions

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

4.14 avg rating — 2,618 ratings — published 2008 — 34 editions

The Barrack's Thief

3.84 avg rating — 1,867 ratings — published 1986 — 28 editions

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

4.10 avg rating — 1,368 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions

Back in the World: Stories

4.07 avg rating — 1,225 ratings — published 1985 — 19 editi

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Tobias Wolff

His is the taut, trim, prose of an athlete. Intricate and highly compressed, Tobias Wolff’s explorations of our emotional and moral infrastructure are psychological travelogues, beginning in one place and ending in another. His first story collection published in 1981, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs was the handbook for aspiring writers. Tobias Wolff was the man who had mastered the story, who knew how to contain and control it and simultaneously, when to let it run. I studied that book top to bottom, backwards and forwards, along with the volumes that followed: Back in the World (1986), The Barracks Thief (1984), and his two stunning memoirs This Boy’s Life (1988) and In Pharaoh’s Army (1994). The Night in Question—Wolff’s newest collection of stories just out from Knopf, once again puts us in the hands of a master-craftsman.

Tobias Wolff watches himself and the world from a certain distance—always observing, taking it in, piecing things together. The result is an intensely compassionate, rich and wry prose style that shows us ourselves i