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Tobias Wolff
American author (born )
For the German footballer, see Tobias Wolf.
Biography tobias wolff
For the legal academic, see Tobias Barrington Wolff.
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, ) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life () and In Pharaoh's Army ().
He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September [1]
His academic career began at Syracuse University (–) and, since , 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 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Rosemary (Loftus) from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son