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TOBIAS WOLFF
He has also edited several anthologies, among
them Best American Short Stories, A Doctor’s Visit: The Short
Stories of Anton Chekhov, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American
Stories. His work is translated widely and has received numerous awards,
including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, both the
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Born in
Alabama in 1945, Tobias Wolff traveled the country with his mother, finally
settling in Washington State, where he grew up. He attended the Hill School in
Pennsylvania until he was expelled for repeated failures in mathematics in his
final year, whereupon he joined the Army. He spent four years as a paratrooper,
including a tour in Vietnam. Following his discharge he attended Oxford
University in England, where he received a First Class Honours degree in English
in 1972. Returning to the United States, he worked variously as a reporter, a
night watchman, a waiter and a high school teacher before receiving a Wallace
Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University in 1975. He is
currently Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the Humanities at
Stanford, where he lives with his wife Catherine. They have three children.
Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In
Pharaoh’s Army; the short novel The Barracks Thief; three
collections of stories, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs,
Back in the World, and The Night in Question; and, most recently,
the novel Old School.